I like the idea of clearly labeling the 'approachable' or 'low hanging fruit' (i would avoid words like simple or easy) type of work.
Here are some tags: "Easy Pickings" - Totally taken from the Django Project "Grasshopper" - You know like some Zen Kung Fu master apprentice type of work I really hope we get some other ideas because these two are pretty bad. -Cameron On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Michael Joyce <[email protected]> wrote: > I sent this link around to a few people via twitter but I figured it > warranted being sent here as well! > > http://nikcodes.com/2013/05/10/new-contributor-jump-in/ > > TLDR: Every OSS project should have a label for issues that new users could > help resolve. Basically a "this is simple enough that a new user could > figure it out and contribute back to the project" tag. > > This shouldn't be a tag for features/issues that the core team doesn't want > to deal with. Mostly it should be for fairly simple auxiliary issues that > won't take forever to debug/implement but that the core team doesn't > necessarily have time to deal with. > > I think this is a great idea. When I first started on OODT this would have > been the coolest thing ever. I think it would be great to have a section > devoted to "getting started" on the website that mentions this as well. > Then it would be really easy for new developers to jump in and help. I > would be more than happy to help get this up and running as well. > > Thoughts? Terrible/great idea? Ideas for a label name? > > -- Joyce >
