The Webdev team just created a new get involved page that lists all current mentored bugs that volunteers can work on for Mozilla sites. It also took about 10 minutes to set up.
You could do something similar for your own project by using the mediawiki-bugzilla extension and the mentored bug flag.
Take a look at the source for this wiki page to see how the mentored bugs are being called up and modify it to work for your own project.
Hey that is really cool(!) and very easy to implement.
I just changed the values (product, etc) and added it to a wiki page and worked.
==Mentored bugs==
{
“product”: “core”,
“whiteboard”: “mentor”,
“component”: “Disability Access APIs”,
“resolution”: “—”
}
Have you changed your settings to require that readers be logged in to comment, or is that WordPress thing?
It happened on another person’s (WP) blog also so I’m curious.
Ken, cool. Glad to see you were able to reuse this.
I haven’t changed any settings on my blog lately. Maybe it is a WordPress thing?
Got striped a little when posting. Should be the following with opening and closing tags.
==Mentored bugs==
bugzilla
{
“product”: “core”,
“whiteboard”: “mentor”,
“component”: “Disability Access APIs”,
“resolution”: “—”
}
bugzilla
awesome to get join with this project
[...] to Mozilla now that my spare time is virtually non-existent. Luckily, mediawiki-bugzilla is gaining a lot of traction at Mozilla and looks to be really helping out. Seeing as I started the project I [...]