[Gardeners] Tending the CL-Gardeners garden

[Peter Seibel]

On Jan 6, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Brad Beveridge wrote:

>>> From Friday I am headed to Canada for 10 days & don't plan to touch
>>> a computer the whole time :)
>>
>> WooHoo!  Have a good time!
> I'm back a little early - had a great time :)  Anyhow, I'm ready to
> start cheerleading now!
> Point me at something to do! :)

So this isn't really related to the VIM project but I think you  
should but on your Green Thumb hat and look at some of the championed  
project pages on the ALU wiki and see if we can get a few into shape  
to be "blessed". The point of blessing projects is not to create some  
vast bureaucratic hurdle to getting work done, but to make sure that  
people who want to help out can do so without a huge hassle. What I  
(with *my* Green Thumb hat on) will be looking for before I'm ready  
to give a project my +1 is a project page that:

  a) Explains clearly and concisely what the purpose of the project  
is and why it's a good idea.

  b) Explains specifically what the project is going to try to  
achieve and the rest of us will know the project is achieving its goals.

  b) Explains clearly and concisely how someone can get up to speed  
and help out the project.

My goal is that a new gardener should be able to look at any project  
page for a CL-Gardeners blessed project and easily decide whether  
it's something they want to work on and then start contributing right  
away.

While Brad is doing that, anyone who has signed up to be a project  
champion should do what they can to get their project page(s) into  
shape to be blessed. And anyone else who wants to should feel free to  
take one of the unchampioned projects and champion it.

-Peter

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