I agree with this analysis. Personally I like the "good first issue" label on github. From what I have seen the labels like that and "hacktoberfest" get more follow through and generate a good amount of interest.
--Kenny Sent from ProtonMail mobile -------- Original Message -------- On Mar 19, 2021, 8:18 AM, Christopher wrote: > Hi Fluo Devs, > > helpwanted.apache.org was a website that was created in order to help > drive new users to projects. Fluo had previously created some tasks > there. However, I don't think it's been a successful experiment. It > tends to drive traffic to the mailing list expressing interest, but > very little follow-up on actual issues or PRs to complete the tasks. > Also, the helpwanted website isn't very friendly to work with, and the > "I'm interested in this task" just generates an automated message that > does not even have a description, title, or even a URL for the task. > So, it can be very hard to cross-reference with the actual open issue > in the issue tracker. > > So, I scoured the helpwanted listings for all of Fluo's listings (the > site only had 47 total listings open, and only 1 still open for Fluo) > and closed the task for Fluo. Until the helpwanted website is improved > in significant ways, I don't think we should use it for any new tasks.
