Interesting question.
Maybe it's an idea to create a top 25 outstanding OACS programming / developers challenges and promote this from the oacs homepage. That could give a new developer a quick start to pick up outstanding issues. Right now these are often hidden in the inner sanctum of OACS. As many packages do not have a maintainer, this mechanism could be turned into an alternative to that issue. The bugtracker alone does not solve this.
Sollicitations like Stephens's could be made an optional feature.
Just a thought
Ben
