QtCS2016 Contributions

• Entry point: how do people find out how to contribute?
  • We can more easily indicate to people how to contact developers
  • Web Freenode
• Making it easy to contribute, less intimidating
  • Instructions too complex!
  • Clean up the entry guidelines
• Bug reports
  • Bug triaging guidelines / hints / BKMs
• Documentation fixes
  • Can we make it easier? There's no need to build, only to run qdoc
• Forums
• "Junior jobs"
  • Mark certain JIRA entries with the label
  • Examples
    • TBD: Examples repo
    • Skeleton/template directory
    • Modernise codebase (C++11, new styles not from Qt 2 days)
  • Documentation
• How to deal with patches that go unnoticed / unreviewed
  • Get someone to review, anyone
  • Add people who have worked in that file and other similar ones
  • If a week goes by, add Maintainer and write "ping"
• Mentoring programs
  • GSoC via KDE
• Rewards
  • Recognising biggest new contributor in the last year to QCS
  • Example: 10th commit gets you a coffee mug