<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">As someone who isn't part of the Fennec team but likes to contribute, I'm always looking for new bugs to work on (if I don't have some kind of bug that affects compatibility in mind). A few weeks back Margaret emailed about the fatfennec project[1] and that's been a place I've gone back to more than once to find a bug I can knock out in a day or two of spare time. What's cool about that meta bug is there's a range of super easy (remove some unused images or JS files) to insane sounding if you're not a Gecko hacker (figure out libxul size increase), so you can kind of navigate where you want to go next within the project.<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
</span></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'd like to take a slight tangent from this. Thanks for the inspiration, Mike! :D</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">One of the problems we face with fatfennec and other big projects is that it's difficult for volunteers (and paid contributors, for that matter!) to make the jump from [good-first-bug]s to the harder/less well specified/less approachable bugs.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That's compounded by over-committed senior folks not finding the time to do enough work to break own those big hairy bugs.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">We also tend to take an all-or-nothing approach to fixing bugs, so those difficult projects tend to sit.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'd like to get to a place where 'success' wasn't synonymous with 'RESOLVED': where we can leverage our contributor base to incrementally move some of these bugs forward, whether that's by doing investigation (almost triage!), breaking down meta bugs, or even writing up better summaries.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That is: can our contributors help our contributors?</div></div>