So you're suggesting that there be no label for "this is triaged and not suitable for newbies"?
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Henry Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
