StudentProject keyword

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 07:00:23PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 05:31 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > On 11/11/2009 10:00 PM, Chris Tyler wrote:
> > > Based on the experience of the Mozilla project in using a
> > > "student-project" keyword to identify potential student projects in
> > > their bugzilla, I asked Dave Lawrence to add a similar keyword to our
> > > bugzilla.
> > > 
> > > Our version is "StudentProject", and it's my hope that we can use it to
> > > identify tasks which would make good student projects: those which are
> > > non-trivial but which can reasonably be wrapped up in a few months'
> > > work, and which are not blockers or on the critical path to a release.
> > > Mozilla's keyword guidelines are at
> > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/Projects/MozillaGuidelines -- I'll
> > > write a Fedora version soon.
> > > 
> > > Your help in adding this keyword to any projects that look appropriate
> > > would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Can you clarify how you intend to differentiate "easyfix" (which has
> > existed for a long time) and "StudentProject"?
> 
> I thought the same thing at first, but then it seems rather clear from
> Chris' description, in fact: "Those which are non-trivial but which can
> reasonably be wrapped up in a few months' work". The easyfix keyword is,
> I believe, intended for issues which *are* trivial and would require
> much less than 'a few months' work'.

Precisely.

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