GHOP, part 2

Well, I just completed my first issue on GHOP, to fix 12 bugs from bugzilla. There are some things that have annoyed me, like there not being many bugs to choose from, some bugs taking a *lot* longer than others, but overall I’ve really enjoyed myself. I should be getting a report on my results some time soonish.

Even though it’s a lot of work, and you really have to spend quite a lot of time a day to finish the issues within the timelimit, I think this is a great alternative to SOC for younger people. It is unfortunate that most tasks require quite a lot of programming skill and prior knowledge of open source software and the projects in particular – therefore I don’t think it serves the purpose of getting young people interested in open source software so much as getting those already into open source software and programming into contributing to projects.

I’d like to say thanks to Andre Klapper for giving me some pointers along the way, and massive hugs to grep and vim for being awesome

Edit: Andre just marked my results as completed – thanks