That is definitely a good property for starter issues (not needing a
production cluster to validate).

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 12:01 AM Roman Leventov <leventov...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I don't use "Contributions Welcome" exclusively for starter issues. I do
> _not_ put this label though on issues that are impossible or hard to
> validate without a production cluster (with specific type of load,
> perhaps). So the assumption is that anyone just with a laptop and IDE could
> contribute these issues, in theory.
>
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2019, 02:59 Vadim Ogievetsky, <vogievet...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like to organize a set of issues (via a label) that are good
> > starting points for someone wanting to contribute to Druid.
> > I want to have the link to the issues filtered on that label to be part
> of
> > the README.
> > This would encourage people new to Druid to contribute and get involved
> in
> > the community.
> >
> > Right now there are two labels that sort of look like they might be
> > talking about something relevant:
> >
> > "Contributions Welcome" (
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid/labels/Contributions%20Welcome
> )
> >
> >   This label seems to only be used by Leventov. I am not a Java dev so it
> > is hard for me to judge if these issues are really good starter issues.
> > Maybe this is more of a "Help Wanted" label.
> >
> > "Difficulty - Easy" (
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid/labels/Difficulty%20-%20Easy)
> >
> >   This label seems more aligned with what I want but I find its text too
> > off-putting to use.
> >   "Easy"? for who? It would not be "easy" for me to to fix a distributed
> > systems bug no matter how small.
> >   On the flip side the console might have a CSS bug that is "easy" in my
> > eyes but will make a Java dev very sad.
> >   While I am on this subject I think these "Difficulty - *" labels are
> > generally unhelpful - does anyone actually use them?
> >
> > My suggestion is as follows:
> >
> > 1. Establish a "Starter" label, link it from the README
> >
> > 2. Rename the "Difficulty - Easy" to "Starter" and review to see if some
> > issues could be added or removed
> >
> > 3. Remove all the "Difficulty - *" labels
> >
> >
> > I would love to get some feedback on this.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Vadim
> >
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