Making It Easier To Start Working On Bugzilla

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

	So, I'm always really happy to have new people working on Bugzilla, but
I think that sometimes the barrier-to-entry is a bit too high. Let's
work out some ways that we could lower it.

	Here's some thoughts I had:

	1) We don't have any brief, clear documentation on the way that the
Bugzilla Project uses Bugzilla, or what our actual development process
is. I didn't realize this until I had to actually explain it in IRC the
other day, and didn't have any document to refer to. :-)

	2) We don't have any way to point new contributors to the bugs that
they should work on. It's true that we have the blockers, and that's a
good place to start, but there are a lot of other easy bugs that would
be a valid place to start off contributing.

	3) We don't really have any sort of defined "channel" (in the
theoretical sense, not in the IRC sense) for new contributors to travel
in. That is, we don't exactly have a written process for "This is how we
handle people who want to contribute to Bugzilla." We have the
Contributor's Guide, but that's more a list of "dos and don'ts."

	Any other ideas? Any other barriers that new developers out there have
run into? I'd really like to have a *lot* of developers, which would in
turn lead to a lot of reviewers.

	-Max
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