The Impala JIRA has 129 tasks that have no assignee, are still open, and are labelled ramp* (i.e. ramp-up, ramp-up-introductory, etc.).
I'd like to find which of those tasks are good tasks for someone who is making their first Impala patch. I intend to promote those on one or more of : the blog, the twitter account, this list, the user list, helpwanted.apache.org, and so on. The tasks should be the kind of thing that someone won't need too much hand-holding on, once their have their dev environment up and working. To do this, I was thinking of adding a comment to all 129 tasks to ask the watchers of each issue if it should be labelled "newbie". This will send hundreds of emails, which is a bummer, but it seems to me like the best way to track the discussions and decisions. What does everyone think?
