Good idea! We he have a few other labels relevant to this as well: - newbie - low-hanging-fruit
Anthony > On Mar 2, 2018, at 10:03 AM, Alexander Murmann <amurm...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I think we could make it easier for people to find tasks that can be their > first contribution to Geode. The wiki page on how to contribute > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/How+to+Contribute> has a > list of suggested projects. Most of those are pretty ambitious and likely > would be overwhelming to first time contributors. There also is a link > to tickets > labeled with "Starter" > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20Geode%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20starter%20AND%20status%20in%20%28Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened%29>. > I think the later is probably a much better angle for someone to start > contributing to Geode. Unfortunately there was less than a handful of > tickets labeled as starter tickets. > > My suggestion is to find tickets that strike a healthy balance between being > > - simple enough that someone new to the code base can realistically take > them on > - rewarding enough that someone can feel a sense of accomplishment after > having their PR merged > - small enough that it can be accomplished in an evening or at most a > long weekend > - unlikely to result in conflicts with larger efforts that someone is > already undertaking > > It would be great to have a variety of tickets that have different levels > of complexity and required effort to allow new contributors of varying > experience levels to start contributing meaningfully and maybe even support > somewhat of a progression curve for someone who wants to become a regular > contributor or even committer. > > I'd also suggest to not allow the list to grow too large. If the list gets > bigger than 20-30 tickets it might get too hard to keep a clear grasp on it > and the risk of having tickets that aren't relevant anymore increases. > Nothing would be more frustrating to a new contributor than investing their > personal time just to find out that it was wasted. So let's be mindful of > not using this as a dumping ground for everything we'd like to see, but > know we'll never get to. > > I already labeled a few more tickets as starter. Please feel free to > validate that I didn't violate my own suggestions in doing so. > > Thoughts?