I just did this, and I went through and marked a few "Contributions Welcome" issues as starters too. Please tag any others that seem like good issues for newbies.
I also raised a PR to update the website: https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid-website-src/pull/64 On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 5:46 PM Vadim Ogievetsky <vogievet...@apache.org> wrote: > Ok I will remove the Difficulty labels and repurpose "Easy" to "Starter" > unless anyone objects within 24h. > > On 2019/10/09 06:30:06, Gian Merlino <g...@apache.org> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@druid.apache.org > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@druid.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@druid.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@druid.apache.org > >
