From: Alex Combas <alex.combas@...>
Date: 2006-12-15T05:19:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Bug Day: Rubinius, JRuby, etc etc etc

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On 12/14/06, Gustav Paul <gustav@rails.co.za> wrote:
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> > So the question is:
> > 1. Are there any people  interested?
> Sure! I generally feel to 'noobish' to bother the core members of
> significant projects with questions on how I can start helping out.
>
> For instance, if one of my friends had not been an
> experienced Linux user of many years, learning the tricks of the trade


They say there are three paths to learning
1.  By reading about it yourself
2.  By watching someone else
3.  By listening to someone explain

And its said most people are type 2 or 3 learners.


> 2. How should we do it?
> Looking at other successful community projects like Firefox, with its
> daily (I think?) testing periods might be a good place to get ideas?
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Well the problem is developers are really busy people.
Sometimes though they are willing to sacrifice a day and
set that time aside in order to help get newly interested
developers started.

It all depends on them.

You'd think that if it meant getting new developers excited about
your project and closing bugs at  the same time that every
project would be clamboring to have a bi-monthly bug day.

But developers are really busy people, so its understandable
they may not have the time.

Maybe we should just outright ask them if they would be willing?

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