Code Triage University

[schneems]

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CodeTriage is really an awesome platform for new developers to learn a lot of new things and contribute to open source at the same time.I was initially psyched about the opportunity, but later my enthusiasm went down.I get issues from the repos I have subscribed, but I have no idea what to do after reading the issue. Today I got this issue https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/7362 but after going through it I am totally clueless on what to do.

I tried searching for tutorials on Codetriage, but there were none.I would love to see some tutorials on Codetriage.

It would be cool to either have a "university" or a set of challenges that new comers to CodeTriage could complete. What do you think? What would you like that to look like?

[corincerami]

I actually was just thinking about a similar idea today. I was thinking about it specifically related to Rails, but it could also be related to being new to open source in general. What if there were some kind of hackathon-like event based around CodeTriage? For example, my thoughts today were that there could be a hackathon based around working through as many open issues and pull requests in the Rails repo as possible, thinking that if a few hundred people participated online, there could be quite a bit of triage going on.

I wonder if having the occasional event like this would make it easier for new people to get involved. Of course there would need to be more experienced devs willing to participate as well, but if a few hundred people are getting introduced to it at once, it reduces the strain on everyone. I'm imaging, for example, a few livestreamed talks about how to contribute, that could also be reinforced with actual examples as the presented works through triaging some issues. Or there could be teams of newcomers each with an assigned senior answering questions and offering insight.

I realize something like this would be pretty large in scale to organize, but it's just what was on my mind today for what I would ideally like to see. @schneems

[bhollan]

OpenHatch has several "training missions", but they are self-admittedly based on the idea of GoogleSummerOfCode.

I think if there was a good marketing scheme/plan and a few different ways to connect it would be great. An IRC Channel and maybe a twitter account or something. Maybe it could be like a "Javascript January" or "March to Clojure" or something like that (ok, maybe less punn-y, but you get the idea.)

[grange74]

A wiki or FAQ would be very helpful. It could give extra guidelines on top of what is already on the main readme and initial email especially for the typical scenarios (e.g. issue lacks detail, issue is not reproducible, issue looks unlikely to be fixed any time soon).

I've been subscribing for a few days now and i'm enjoying learning more of the ins/outs of the repos that i subscribe to but so far most issues are beyond me apart from a few where i've asked for more info in order to reproduce it and others which sound like they should be closed.

I've done quite a bit of triaging at work (obviously Open Source is a little different) so i know some of the typical questions to ask but others may not. i'm happy to help.

[cheerfulstoic]

There are instructions in the first E-Mail that you get:

https://github.com/codetriage/codetriage/blob/9523c5f33535a47b70359efef4383f368a4875f2/app/views/user_mailer/send_triage.text.erb#L19

But I would actually like to see these at the bottom of every E-Mail that I get.

[prathamesh-sonpatki]

@cheerfulstoic Nice idea :+1:. Rather than putting complete content in the email we can link to Github Readme's How To Triage?. Please send PR :smile:

[cheerfulstoic]

See PR #388