This app is designed to help new folks to the Ember ecosystem find issues to work on that most need help. The goal would be for this to work well for project nights for meetups, conferences and anyone else interested in hacking on various projects while also helping the main Ember repositories get much needed help with issues.

The goal is for this app to interface with https://github.com/ember-learn/ember-help-wanted-backend as the backend.

Our goal with this app is to do two major things in the Ember community.

One: create an efficient way of exposing major projects in the Ember ecosystem to a wide audience of volunteers (of varying levels of expertise) to get major blockers addressed by crowd-sourcing the effort. Currently, project maintainers will write up epic issues (see the Glimmer2 help issue or the Ember website responsive issue for examples of issues that have had real success) but after the initial tweet and announcement, these issues tend to disappear off people's radar.

Two: provide a curated pool of issues (from a variety of major Ember projects) that folks either new to Ember (or new to contributing to Ember) can use as a diving-in point to getting to know people in the Ember ecosystem. Oftentimes people will be interested in contributing, but are a bit daunted by browsing the various repos in Ember to try to find issues that they can actually help with. Although a "good for new contributors" or "help wanted" label is often applied, there may not be enough information in those issues to allow newcomers to really dive in.

The goal would be to use this tool to encourage maintainers to write up issues in deeper detail so that those issues would be added to the Help Wanted board and made generally available. This might also increase the number of regular contributors to various projects, which in turn could help the entire community accomplish ambitious things faster.

To accomplish the above, we aim to have a Node backend that receives Github webhook notifications about issues across a number of Ember projects. The backend will filter those issues and store them to act as our "pool" of potential issues that potential contributors can work on.

Those issues will then surface in this Ember app, where they can be searched and filtered in various ways as each potential contributor desires. We may add some level of curation to the issues (whether that is needed is still to be determined) or in other ways editorialize as issues show up in the app.

Once the initial MVP is off the ground, we also wonder about using this tool as a means for meetup organizers (and contributor workshops at various Ember conferences) to sort through issues and pick subsets for their meetings. For example, if a meetup group wants to help its members learn more about Ember Data, a meetup organizer could go through the existing pool of issues and cherry-pick 5-10 issues for folks to focus on for that evening that would help with that.

Or this tool could be used as a foundation for running the Contributors Workshop that occurs each year at EmberConf. 😀

Long-term, we also wonder about tweeting out major new issues or in other ways exposing key pieces of info to the greater Ember world (we could potentially use it as a way of posting "maintainer wanted" messages as well).

But first, we have to build this tool. Which is where we hope (o reader), you come in 😀. Currently, we organize our issues using milestones and are close to being done with the MVP of this tool. After that, we'd like to work through v1

If you're interested, please speak up on issues or contact us on the Ember Community Slack #-team-learning channel. Look forward to working on these things with you further!

You will need the following things properly installed on your computer.

• Git
• Node.js (with NPM)
• Bower
• Ember CLI
• PhantomJS

• git clone <repository-url> this repository
• cd ember-help-wanted
• npm install
• bower install

• ember serve
• Visit your app at http://localhost:4200.

Make use of the many generators for code, try ember help generate for more details

• ember test
• ember test --server

• ember build (development)
• ember build --environment production (production)

Specify what it takes to deploy your app.

• ember.js
• ember-cli
• Development Browser Extensions
  • ember inspector for chrome
  • ember inspector for firefox