Take It Easy

Our own success with the EasyHacks -- a list of things to do for newcomers to get started with the LibreOffice project -- was a bit overwhelming: The amount of things to do and the amount of things getting done in short periods of time made the EasyHacks wiki page a hub of activity -- but it also became quickly confusing to the unsuspecting newcomer, who might soon feel like experiencing a MIT-style firehose education. So after a lively discussion on the dev@ mailing list we decided to take the main chunk of the task handling to bugzilla.

So here they are, your shiny new EasyHacks:

• Easy Hacks Start Page
• Easy Hacks by Required Skill
• Easy Hacks by Difficulty

You might miss "Easy Hacks by Topic" and "Easy Hacks by Component" and a few others, and you are right. And as with so many things at LibreOffice -- there is an EasyHack for it.

So while I will return to my vacation now, I wish you all some happy hacking!

P.S.:
This might be a good time to check and update "your" EasyHacks:

• If you are working on an Easy Hack and have a bugzilla account by now, you can assign it to yourself.
• If you have finished an Easy Hack, you can close it on bugzilla.
• If you have created Easy Hacks you might want to update their tags, so that it shows up in the right lists. This is especially true for these Easy Hacks.

This was originally published at 2011-08-02 11:22:00/2011-08-02 09:22:13 on livejournal.