Coding Snacks and Coding Lunches (or more!)

[TaoPhoenix]

So while we're all going "let's revamp things", one area I see as a big ... area ... is to separate what is a fast  & dirty "snack" vs various kinds of really hard things the user had no idea of.

I have to take an example, so let's borrow from this one:
(In the good of DC!)

https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=41478.0

"I would like to find or request a program that will display a name in the context menu. It doesn't have to do anything other then say, Yes include this in the context menu and provide a name. I need a pair for the ALL Files (*) key, a pair for the Folder key, a pair for the Directory key, and perhaps just one for the All File and Folder Objects key as I only need to see the start of these menu items. It is all the same program but each one is compiled with a different menu name"

Summary is, it's "harder than it looks" and ((Oh how my that's bitten me!)).

I'm totally out of my depth but for ex that stopped being a Snack at some point.

I think we should work on that, because at reduced DC rates, there are profound things that can happen once the *user* shows he/she is committed a bit, because to me that's the signal bit lacking, not raw price but as noted earlier, spam "can you do X" and never appearing again.

Somewhere in there, I'd give a few of you $10 to do a few things but it works (unassumedly but let's tighten it a bit) I'm a DC Top 17 regular.

[JavaJones]

It might be interesting to see a system, either in the forums or in the CMS, where coding requests ("snack" or otherwise, hehe) can be made, and then those who have volunteered as coders can have a "coder" membership level/group and have the ability to rate the difficulty/time commitment, along with of course making replies/comments, posting files if they resolve it, etc. The original requester should have the ability to mark the request "resolved", and ideally in a better way than just by changing the title text. This suggests it might be better suited for being setup in the CMS where it would - I think - be easier to have custom content fields and permissions to handle this stuff. Maybe it's overkill, but if the idea is to encourage more requests *and* more fulfillment, and to better categorize and rank the challenge of these things, as well as keep track of longer-term and more challenging requests over time, then I think a semi-dedicated system (possibly based on a directory component or something) is really going to be needed. In other words if we want to see the "coding snack" concept not just supported but made to *thrive*, perhaps even take on a life of its own, then it needs to be promoted to first-class citizen on the website and given functionality appropriate to its needs.

P.S. Users voting on coding snacks they also would benefit from would also be cool, of course. Then we can derive a value: level of difficulty/time vs. level of interest, and coders can make educated choices on what to focus on for the most bang for their time.

- Oshyan