trolling for helpers

[illogic-al]

On Thursday 21 October 2004 03:10 pm, Aaron Seigo wrote:
> hey all....
>
> as you may or may not know i was possessed by some unnamed evil spirit that
> coerced me into taking on the maintenance of kicker.
>
> kicker is a pretty big, and even daunting, stretch of code. but there are a
> lot of things that could/should be done that do not require a rocket
> scientist at the helm.
>
> if anyone is interesed in working on kicker in any of the following areas,
> please let me know. i'm more than happy to play guide / mentor / patch
> tester / question answerer / naughty nurse for you. well, maybe not naughty
> nurse.
>
> 	0. Bug triage. There are 136 open bugs and 289 open wishes. Many of these
> simply have not been triaged.
>
> 	1. Bug fixing. Many of the bugs I've come across while doing triage in the
> last week have been relatively trivial to fix. Usually the biggest blocker
> to fixing kicker bugs is knowing where in the codebase to start looking. I
> can usually point out the location of the code in question quite quickly.
>
> 	2. Documentation writing. Both developer and user targeted documentation
> needs doing.
>
I've attempted an update of kicker's docs. Sorry if there are five copies of 
this. mail server was being rather anal and the drafts no longer seem to 
exist in kmail :-/ patch against kicker's index.docbook attached.
> 	3. Q/A. there are a bajillion possible setting combinations in kicker.
> Q/A, which is somehow related to Bug Triage, would be great.
>
> 	4. Feature additions. well, this one is sef explanatory.

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