[Freeswitch-users] Call For Help: Janitor Projects

Tue Mar 31 23:21:54 PDT 2009

 First off. I would not call it a "janitors project" since that may offend some. A second problem is your notion that documentation is "not-quite-as-important" a task as writing code. I'm think many would say you have that backwards. There is nothing more effective in evolving FreeSwitch than good documentation which helps further development and is an important part of "customer service." Good customer service is then a part of "sales and marketing." Much more often than not, It's sales and marketing that is more important to making something a "real product"? than engineering. "Build it and they will come" almost never works.

Anyway, I think you need a new name for this project.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org>
To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>; freeswitch-dev at lists.freeswitch.org
Sent: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 5:10 pm
Subject: [Freeswitch-users] Call For Help: Janitor Projects

Dear FreeSWITCH Community:

As you know, FreeSWITCH has been growing leaps and bounds and it's going to keep growing as the word spreads. The core development team of Anthony, Mike, and Brian are very appreciative of the community's help and involvement in the project. Simply put: the community is awesome!

Some have asked how they can help. Most of us are not software developers, but that doesn't mean we can't help to grow the FreeSWITCH ecosystem. To this end I've started a "janitor projects" wiki page:

http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Janitor_Projects

We say "janitor" projects because they are things that help keep the project clean and organized, just like the janitor cleans an office, takes out the trash, replaces the toilet paper, etc. These are valuable services that we sometimes take for granted. However, I think we can all appreciate that the FreeSWITCH project would be better served if the developers could focus on writing code, fixing bugs, etc. and not on the easier, not-quite-as-important janitorial tasks. To that end we are inviting all who wish to volunteer to please visit the above wiki page and check out some of the projects listed so far. Email me off list if you'd like to volunteer to help. I'm maintaining a list of "janitors" and what they are helping with. If you have ideas for other janitor projects then by all means email them to me and we'll discuss them.

Thanks again for being such a great community!

-Michael S Collins
IRC: mercutioviz

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