[Koha-devel] FW: Where is the BIG RED WARNING button?

[Jon Knight]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Jonathan Druart wrote:
> If you are a developer and you want to help, what do you do? Where do you
> do? How to you prioritize your work? Are you all picking bugs randomly in
> the queue?

I'm not a "developer" in that I don't work for a commercial Koha support 
company, but as our library are moving to Koha and I'm a coder, I've been 
dipping my toes in the Koha dev waters.  As such, Koha is only a very 
small part of my day job, so doesn't get lots of time allocated to it at 
the moment.  Running to jump on the Koha dev train is quite a challenge: 
there's much to learn and the information about what to do and what is 
required/optional takes a while to find.  As such I currently feel much 
happier/safer making small enhancements/bug fixes than working on show 
stopping blockers where I may well currently lack the skills and knowledge 
to do the right thing.

So for me, yes, I do tend to look at Bugzilla bugs randomly in the queue, 
as some are of more interest to our library than others (and quite a few I 
don't understand and/or seem to have grown crufty and unusable). If I get 
a spare few minutes and something interesting pops up on the IRC channel 
or the mailing list I may look at it.

> We need to all agree on a "place to go" to know what need to be done. I
> listed ideas.

For what its worth, I'd suggest just having "a" place to go.  Koha seems 
to have lots of places to go at the moment (IRC, mailing list, Kanban, 
bugzilla, wiki pages, random people's githubs, etc, etc). If you're 
suffering from a lack of attention, focus what attention there is on just 
one place, and don't introduce more ways of interacting.

Jon