[oe] Cleanup / janitors

Koen Kooi k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Tue Feb 16 08:13:00 UTC 2010


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On 16-02-10 00:38, Chris Larson wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> Per discussion in the TSC meeting this month, I'm sending out this email as
> a probe.  Would anyone on the list benefit from a "janitors" type project,
> to outline and document specific cleanup tasks and how they should be done?
> There are many tasks that need doing which involve editing of large amounts
> of files in relatively simple ways, and I suspect, but am not yet certain,
> that there are a group of individuals who wish to contribute to the project,
> but are new enough that they don't feel confident diving into anything
> invasive.  This sort of a task could be a starting point for that sort of
> individual.  Thoughts?  Anyone out there in that camp currently that would
> benefit from something like this?

The first project that comes to mind is converting simple recipes (e.g.
not perl) to new style staging. It's a fairly simple job that has a huge
impact.

regards,

Koen
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