I’m thinking about starting a variant of Iron Blogger. In normal Iron Blogger, each week where you fail to blog you throw $5 in to the pot and every month or two there’s a big party paid for with the proceeds. In this variant (Coding Iron Blogger?) instead of paying $5 each week if you fail to blog, you’d have to open a pull request against a repo owned by another of the Iron Bloggers. :-)
I think it should work if there are enough bloggers to ensure a wide array of github repos owned by the bloggers, and if there’s some social pressure to have bugs tagged “easy” that can be accomplished by someone without previous exposure to the codebase. (And maybe some requested documentation; contributions don’t always have to be code.)
It might even help people to understand that programming in a language you don’t know yet isn’t always a scary thing to be avoided. What do you think – would you join, if invited?
I’m thinking about starting a variant of Iron Blogger. In normal Iron Blogger, each week where you fail to blog you throw $5 in to the pot and every month or two there’s a big party paid for with the proceeds. In this variant (Coding Iron Blogger?) instead of paying $5 each week if you fail to blog, you’d have to open a pull request against a repo owned by another of the Iron Bloggers. :-)
I think it should work if there are enough bloggers to ensure a wide array of github repos owned by the bloggers, and if there’s some social pressure to have bugs tagged “easy” that can be accomplished by someone without previous exposure to the codebase. (And maybe some requested documentation; contributions don’t always have to be code.)
It might even help people to understand that programming in a language you don’t know yet isn’t always a scary thing to be avoided. What do you think – would you join, if invited?
Iron Coder sounds cool, but it seems a little limiting to require pull requests only on other members of the group.