I would strongly prefer not adding "non-newbie". It seems to have limited use, and is another way to increase the state space of JIRA labels, components, etc, etc.
Let's just find some good first-patch candidates and tag them. On 20 October 2016 at 16:03, Jim Apple <[email protected]> wrote: > Since I have heard no objection to these tag names, I'm picking > "newbie" and "non-newbie". I am going to start emailing some PMC > members to ask them to categorize issues. > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Jim Apple <[email protected]> wrote: > > How shall we distinguish between the following three classes of issues: > > > > 1. Un-triaged ramp-up issues > > 2. ramp-up issues that are not for newbies > > 3. newbie issues > > > > We could add two tags, "newbie" and "non-newbie". We could call the > > second tag something other than "non-newbie", like "second-patch" or > > "sophomore". > > > > Thoughts? > > > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Marcel Kornacker <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Please don't add that comment. :) > >> > >> What's currently labelled ramp-up is often not a good newbie task (and > >> maybe not even a good ramp-up task). The best way to identify newbie > >> tasks is for a few senior engineers to sift through the ramp-up tasks > >> and pick out maybe a few dozen that truly qualify as newbie tasks. > >> > >> I'm happy to help out with that when I get back. > >> > >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Jim Apple <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> 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? > -- Henry Robinson Software Engineer Cloudera 415-994-6679
