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On 3 November 2014 05:18, Andre Klapper <aklapper@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi Parsoid & VisualEditor crew,

Google Code-In (GCI) will soon take place again - a contest for 13-17
year old students to contribute to free software projects.

Wikimedia wants to take part again.
Last year's GCI results were surprisingly good - see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2013

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* Open VisualEditor tickets created in the last six months (if I got
your products and components right):
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=[Bug%20creation]&chfieldfrom=-6m&keywords=easy&keywords_type=nowords&resolution=---&product=VisualEditor

Corrected link (in front-end we use ASSIGNED to mean "accepted"): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&chfield=%5BBug%20creation%5D&chfieldfrom=-6m&keywords=easy&keywords_type=nowords&list_id=356403&product=VisualEditor&resolution=---

* Zero existing VisualEditor "easy" tickets (are they still valid? Are
they really self-contained, non-controversial issues with a clear
approach? Could some of them be GCI tasks that you would mentor? If so,
please tag them as described above!):
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&keywords=easy&keywords_type=allwords&resolution=---&product=VisualEditor

Corrected link, per above: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&keywords=easy&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=356399&product=VisualEditor&query_format=advanced&resolution=--- — but there are still no such bugs

Could you imagine mentoring some of these tasks?

Unfortunately, I think the VisualEditor world is too complicated at this point to break off simple bugs without a lot more documentation (and this is reflected in the lack of bugs tagged as "easy"). We've talked about writing up a "crash course" to explain how things work, updating https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Design/Software_overview and the like, but we're too far from that to be able to commit to GCI for this year, sorry.

James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

jforrester@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester