tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497847932106835950.post7872671878470544864..comments2024-03-19T01:08:14.364-07:00Comments on The Raving Rick: Why I Have Nothing Interesting to SayRick Spencerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16312439500490748313noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497847932106835950.post-42360945936116901912010-09-06T13:07:38.011-07:002010-09-06T13:07:38.011-07:00I like your positive attitude about still being pa...I like your positive attitude about still being part of the community! Too many people fall in to the us-and-them trap!<br /><br />Congrats on the position and hope you have lots of fun!Jonathan Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07702251436700402109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497847932106835950.post-17792205520264358942010-09-01T09:43:32.569-07:002010-09-01T09:43:32.569-07:00Hi Rick. First of all, congratulations on your new...Hi Rick. First of all, congratulations on your new job! I'm an Ubuntu enthusiast, use it for a couple of years now and would like to contribute on my spare time as a developer. IMO, the main issue is not a technical one like learning a new a programming language or how to create a SSH key but, the workflow that is needed to accomplish a task - so that one can see his/her work being integrated into Ubuntu. This is kinda complicated for someone who does not know the whole process.<br /><br />Paving the road to invite new contributions is something you (Canonical) really needed to emphasize. By that I mean, having a team helping/guiding prospective developers like me - that want to help but don't know why - to work on those tasks that demand attention. Something simple like, how to fix a papercut with a human guiding you, instead of a set of static wiki pages that point to other pages on LP and then what?<br /><br />Now, I'm really looking forward to see what new steps are being taken on these directions. Jono has already assign part of this core work to Daniel(?), according to his post. I hope you and other folks can do some work on this direction, so that this purpose is reached and helps motivating us, prospective developers, to contribute into the community.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497847932106835950.post-15757197831036373642010-09-01T09:28:10.347-07:002010-09-01T09:28:10.347-07:00Congrats on the promotion it sounds like a lot of ...Congrats on the promotion it sounds like a lot of challenging work so good luck too :)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08574770046455379578noreply@blogger.com