Thread:Talk:Product development/For starters: triaging enhancement requests/reply (4)

It doesn't matter what a volunteering activity is about: it is easier to ge more and more diverse people when there is a progression of steps from simplest to more complex. If someone feels like jumping to the more complex from the beginning that is all good, bt we need to have something for those having one evening and willing to try.

Another general rule of distributed volunteering projects: it is better when there is a pile of non-critical little tasks that someone can start and complete, leaving an improvement even if that person walks away the next day. The simplest PM tasks that we are listing not only require significant work to get you started, they also require a nice dose of work before you can improve the current situation and leave.

In other words: I'm not arguing against anything currently proposed at the page, neither with any of your arguments in this thread. I'm only saying that there is more we can do to connect casual volunteers with a first task that would lead them to other tasks.