I'll post some trailheads to dev-identity by Friday; we're just now rebooting some coordinated development effort. Generally speaking, our greatest challenge is an enormous amount of technical debt in the main Persona repo[0]. The cruft and complexity hinder maintenance, slow feature development, and present a huge challenge for potential contributors.
We're specifically trying to tease apart the verifier, frontend, and backend into independent components, but literally any contribution to reduce code complexity / cruft would be welcome. Some ideas: audit / upgrade our node dependencies, replace npm-lockdown with npm-shrinkwrap, try to get Persona running locally and file documentation bugs about what did / didn't work, open a random .js or .ejs file and see if you can make it less verbose or complex. All would be useful contributions.
> the IRC channel was dead for three days and the dev-identity list looks overrun with spam.
Right now our IRC coverage isn't great, but the mailing list should be better. The spam is an unfortunate side-effect of Mozilla's weird NNTP/SMTP hybrid lists -- certain incoming messages are somehow bypassing the filters set up in Mailman. I'll look into it more tomorrow.
Otherwise, if you mention my nick on IRC or GitHub, I'll see it. :)
I'll post some trailheads to dev-identity by Friday; we're just now rebooting some coordinated development effort. Generally speaking, our greatest challenge is an enormous amount of technical debt in the main Persona repo[0]. The cruft and complexity hinder maintenance, slow feature development, and present a huge challenge for potential contributors.
We're specifically trying to tease apart the verifier, frontend, and backend into independent components, but literally any contribution to reduce code complexity / cruft would be welcome. Some ideas: audit / upgrade our node dependencies, replace npm-lockdown with npm-shrinkwrap, try to get Persona running locally and file documentation bugs about what did / didn't work, open a random .js or .ejs file and see if you can make it less verbose or complex. All would be useful contributions.
> the IRC channel was dead for three days and the dev-identity list looks overrun with spam.
Right now our IRC coverage isn't great, but the mailing list should be better. The spam is an unfortunate side-effect of Mozilla's weird NNTP/SMTP hybrid lists -- certain incoming messages are somehow bypassing the filters set up in Mailman. I'll look into it more tomorrow.
Otherwise, if you mention my nick on IRC or GitHub, I'll see it. :)
[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/persona/