[dot] Hey Junior... Looking for a Job?

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From: Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org>
Dept: don't-give-me-a-fish-but-teach-me-to-fish
Date: Thursday 13/May/2004, @09:32

Hey Junior... Looking for a Job?
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   Lubos Lunak asked recently
[http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=108438221522742&w=2] on
kde-core-devel [https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-core-devel]
what to do with a little wishlist
[http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78950] item filed against KWin. 
It's a nice entry, well described, and he even has some ideas about how
to implement it --- but he also believes that he could spend his time
better by teaching someone to implement it rather than do it himself.
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he
eats for a lifetime.

     This is where KDE's Bugzilla [http://bugs.kde.org/] comes in.  As a
convention -- no more than that -- developers can mark wishlist items
with "JJ:" (JJ stands for Junior Jobs) in the summary to indicate that
these jobs are suitable for people looking for some initial programming
challenge to get acquainted with KDE programming. A simple search
[http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=JJ:&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_severity=wishlist]
in Bugzilla can show aspiring users what kind of jobs are available for
people just starting out.

     With that said, I'd like to invite - or remind - developers to mark
wishlist items that are suitable beginning jobs with the JJ: "seal of
approval" so that everyone -- budding young programmers, busy
developers, folks with wishes -- profits. (Users that enter new wishlist
items with the JJ: mark of course intend to implement the feature
themselves, and are just "staking a claim" in Bugzilla).