Right, those people are very valuable and they build the community - they are what I consider the contributors. What I am looking for through this thread are people organizing the work, i.e. maintaining the backlog, keeping it clean, easy to understand and up to date (besides many other things). So far Thomas was the one doing this for openHAB 1, but he couldn’t cope with it anymore. I am already taking care of openHAB 2 and Eclipse SmartHome while doing major core development work there, so there is simply no chance that I could step in. Luckily, we have already found two great maintainers with @hakan and @steve1 who are both doing a tremendous job here - within a few days, we went below 400 open issues, which is a huge step forward already; thanks!
But since you were asking for “simple” jobs that people could help with, I actually asked for some of those things with not too much feedback so far, so possibly it is a good time to repeat them now:
- I would love if people could test openHAB 1 add-ons on openHAB 2 and give feedback, see this thread
- We need a wikipedia entry! Native english speakers are very much invited to help, see here.
It would be great, if we had dedicated people who would look out for such fund raising and winning sponsors for sure! This is also a very important reason for me wanting to found the charity organisation, because this is the legal entity which could then be sponsored by those companies.