[Tracker-discuss] Call for volunteers to help maintain bugs.python.org's issue tracker

[Brett Cannon]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Niels Reijers <nielsreijers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm responding to Brett Cannon's call for volunteers to help maintain
> Python's issue tracker. I've been planning to get involved with an open
> source project for a while, but just never got around to it, so maybe this
> is a good opportunity to get going.
>  I only started to use Python about two years ago, but it quickly became my
> favourite language. Especially the emphasis on simplicity and readability
> really matched my own ideas on coding. My day job is at an insurance company
> where I'm techlead on a fun project, but unfortunately it's a C#-only shop.
> I'd love to get a chance to use Python in something bigger than my pet
> projects, and do something that will hopefully be useful to the Python
> community at the same time.
>  The only concern I have is how much time I should be investing? As much as
> I'd like to get involved, my work and private schedule are usually very
> busy, so I expect to be limitted to about one evening a week, maybe two.
> Will this be sufficient to make a useful contribution? If so, what's the
> best way to get started?

Your time investment is up to you. You do not need to dedicate a set
amount of time every week in order to help.

The best to get started is to read the tracker documentation at
http://wiki.python.org/moin/TrackerDocs/ . Note the link to the
meta-tracker that contains the issues related to the tracker. Also
note the link to the tracker development docs.

-Brett