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The KDE Commit-Digest Needs You

The Enzyme platform is ready.
I built it, but they have not come!

I can't hide my disappointment here: 8 people have so far volunteered (and I thank them), but it's not enough.
I estimate that I need a core of at least 30 people to sustain a weekly Digest - even at this participation level, that's about 83 commits that each person needs to review per week.
Reviewers, editors, and translators are all still urgently needed.

I know from experience that people can drop out or have less productive weeks due to events in their offline lives, and so there also needs to be a buffer - more people are always better!

So please volunteer if you can spare some time out of your week on an ongling basis: http://enzyme.commit-digest.org/

I've spent a lot of time recently - especially in the past month - working on bringing this back to you because I believed there was a big demand for this publication. I really hope I was not mistaken!

8 comments

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Ron says4th Oct 2010 @ 08:41
Hi Danny - could you state what skills are required for each job? Does the reviewer job requires to be more technical than classifier or vice versa? If you're not technical at all, does that leave the other 2 only?
I'm sorry if you've already mentioned it before.
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Casper Boemann says4th Oct 2010 @ 12:37
Don't worry I think there is interest enough. It's just a question of creating enough buzz here in the beginning to get over the initial sluggishness. Thanks for doing this.
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onety-three says4th Oct 2010 @ 15:13
Announcing this on the Dot might help to bring in more volunteers.
Also, you could link directly to the enzyme screenshot page so people can get a better idea of what the whole work flow will look like - and while you're at it you could mention the page with recent commit messages so people can see for themselves whether they're capable of understanding them.
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Stefan Buller says4th Oct 2010 @ 16:47
I myself am intrigued by the idea, but there are various small issues that hold me back. I feel this would be a lot more successful if you let people try their hand at it without committing to it. I would recommend a system where anybody could create an account and give it a try. Actions of new users would need review, but active users with good results could be granted more privileges. I can see how adding such a system might be out of the question, but I believe it would be more successful.
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Matt Williams says4th Oct 2010 @ 17:43
I've signed up to help already but I'm having trouble actually using the system. The keyboard shortcuts don't seem to do anything. I'm on Firefox 4.0 Beta 5 in openSUSE.
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Bugsbane says5th Oct 2010 @ 01:40
I *tried* to signup in Rekonk 0.6, but the apply button doesn't seem to do anything :/ Will try again in FF.

I wholeheartedly agree that you'd get a lot more people by making a lower barrier to entry than full time, forever commitment (pardon the pun). Something like that people can get an RSS feed / email of commits from particular areas (say Koffice) and - if they have an account - with one click "upvote" that commit as potentially interesting to users. Users could also ask to only get commits with at least x upvotes already in their feed. Registered devs / trusted users could then be sent automatically emailed about commits with >X upvoted commits asking if they would like to publish it to the commit-digest with a single click (and optionally write a 1-10000 sentance description). This way *everything* is optional. Nothing requires infinite commitment. No one feels guilty for having to bail out on any given day / week. This way is much easier and more appealing for people to offer to begin... after all, what's one more email / rss post in your feed? ;)
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Joey says5th Oct 2010 @ 14:44
I'm just a lowly user of KDE and a Planet reader. I might be just missing something but I had a hard time to figure out what Enzyme and a Commit Digest are. I'm probably not part of the target audience but I can imagine that many people just don't understand what's going on here. I might just be very wrong though.
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Danny says5th Oct 2010 @ 23:23
Thanks for the suggestions everyone!
I'm away now until Thursday evening, but i'll start on some of them then.