Calling all enthusiasts! Become a JANITOR (Just A Newbie Intensively Training On ReactOS) today!

[Alex Ionescu]

Dear ReactOS enthusiasts and friends,

We are currently in dire need of motivated people to help us build the 
future OS of the masses. While our developers are busily creating new 
code and fixing bugs, there remain dozens, if not more, of things to 
take care of in our tree and in our code. I would like to extend an open 
invitation to anyone interested on becoming a JANITOR (Just A Newbie 
Intensively Training On ReactOS).

As a JANITOR, you will join a team of people, which, just like you, want 
to see ReactOS succeed and have some spare time to help. You do NOT need 
any coding experience! Most of the time, only simple word processing 
skills are needed. Janitorial jobs will include cleaning up comment 
headers, standardizing the debug system, alphabetizing code and 
organizing files, compiling a list of fixmes, checking for spelling 
mistakes, etc. These jobs will be custom tailored to your abilities, and 
there will be no time limits (but you must commit to doing the job).

Also, JANITORs will have access to an online collaboration site where 
the current top-priority jobs are presented, and where they can commit 
to one of them. You can also share the workload and work in teams, or 
however you work best. A status system will be available to monitor the 
progression of jobs, and many more tools will become available.

So don't delay, and join the JANITOR program today! Send me an e-mail at 
alex(a)relsoft.net with your name, e-mail and contact availabily (MSN, 
ICQ, IRC (preferred)). A real-time communication tool will be preferred, 
but I can acustom to people demanding exclusively e-mail contact (since 
the JANITOR Project Site will have most of the information).

I know that many of you want to help but that the current state of the 
outdatedness of the website and documentation, as well as the general 
lack of directions are discouraging you. This will be a unique 
experience to leave your mark in ReactOS.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
ReactOS JANITOR Program Manager

NOTE to Devs: The JANITOR Program is fully the child of my brain and is 
a personal project, and will not use the ReactOS bandwidth, site, or 
other resources unless explicit permission and agreement is made by all 
developers. You will not need to do any additional task or handle 
anything more and this will not affect your workload in any way.

[Mark Tempel]

Great Idea Alex!

We certainly do have alot of little stuff to clean up.


Maybe we should bring back the weekend coder projects too.....

--mark


Alex Ionescu wrote:

>   Dear ReactOS enthusiasts and friends,
>
>  We are currently in dire need of motivated people to help us build the 
>  future OS of the masses. While our developers are busily creating new 
>  code and fixing bugs, there remain dozens, if not more, of things to 
>  take care of in our tree and in our code. I would like to extend an 
>  open invitation to anyone interested on becoming a JANITOR (Just A 
>  Newbie Intensively Training On ReactOS).
>
>  As a JANITOR, you will join a team of people, which, just like you, 
>  want to see ReactOS succeed and have some spare time to help. You do 
>  NOT need any coding experience! Most of the time, only simple word 
>  processing skills are needed. Janitorial jobs will include cleaning up 
>  comment headers, standardizing the debug system, alphabetizing code 
>  and organizing files, compiling a list of fixmes, checking for 
>  spelling mistakes, etc. These jobs will be custom tailored to your 
>  abilities, and there will be no time limits (but you must commit to 
>  doing the job).
>
>  Also, JANITORs will have access to an online collaboration site where 
>  the current top-priority jobs are presented, and where they can commit 
>  to one of them. You can also share the workload and work in teams, or 
>  however you work best. A status system will be available to monitor 
>  the progression of jobs, and many more tools will become available.
>
>  So don't delay, and join the JANITOR program today! Send me an e-mail 
>  at alex(a)relsoft.net with your name, e-mail and contact availabily 
>  (MSN, ICQ, IRC (preferred)). A real-time communication tool will be 
>  preferred, but I can acustom to people demanding exclusively e-mail 
>  contact (since the JANITOR Project Site will have most of the 
>  information).
>
>  I know that many of you want to help but that the current state of the 
>  outdatedness of the website and documentation, as well as the general 
>  lack of directions are discouraging you. This will be a unique 
>  experience to leave your mark in ReactOS.
>
>  Best regards,
>  Alex Ionescu
>  ReactOS JANITOR Program Manager
>
>  NOTE to Devs: The JANITOR Program is fully the child of my brain and 
>  is a personal project, and will not use the ReactOS bandwidth, site, 
>  or other resources unless explicit permission and agreement is made by 
>  all developers. You will not need to do any additional task or handle 
>  anything more and this will not affect your workload in any way.
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>  Ros-dev(a)reactos.com
>  http://reactos.com:8080/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
>
>

[K McI]

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You already have my infos on this. This is excellent, there are
certainly some "JANITORial" things that've been being annoying for
sometime now, and I'd love to fix.

Thanx AGAIN!

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[Steven Edwards]

--- Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)videotron.ca> wrote:
>   I know that many of you want to help but that the
> current state of the 
>  outdatedness of the website and documentation, as well as the general 
>  lack of directions are discouraging you. This will be a unique 
>  experience to leave your mark in ReactOS. 
Alex and I discussed this a bit the other night and I think he is on the right track with
this.
There is a existing Janitorial page I started on the Wiki. Feel free to add your stuff to
there
for now.

http://mok.lvcm.com/cgi-bin/reactos/roswiki?Janitorial

Thanks
Steven



		
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[K McI]

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Steven Edwards wrote:
| Alex and I discussed this a bit the other night and I think he is on
the right track with this.
| There is a existing Janitorial page I started on the Wiki. Feel free
to add your stuff to there
| for now.

HaH, I caught the tail end of that.

| http://mok.lvcm.com/cgi-bin/reactos/roswiki?Janitorial

Since this is definitely more complicated coding stuff, should this be
moved somewhere else? If so where? Or should there be a separate
"JANITOR" or "JANITORial" page for this effort?

Thanx

~           -uniQ
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[Steven Edwards]

Hi,

--- K McI <uniq(a)wwsvr.bounceme.net> wrote:
>   Since this is definitely more complicated coding
> stuff, should this be
>  moved somewhere else? If so where? Or should there be a separate
>  "JANITOR" or "JANITORial" page for this effort? 
I think you may be right. The stuff on this page is complex.

Thanks
Steven



		
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[K McI]

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Steven Edwards wrote:
| I think you may be right. The stuff on this page is complex.

Maybe move that to "Style and maintenance" or "Cleanup" or something
and
then have that redirect to "JANITOR" which will be the new page?

Thanx

~         -uniQ
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