It's an unfortunate standard -- I saw people (new to the jira / apache) using that tag as "I am a newbie and I have this problem", where the problem is quite complicated. Also, I don't like the term newbie in general :-). I'll edit confluence to have the right link.
D On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Jakob Homan <[email protected]> wrote: > 'newbie' is becoming the standard, or at least has been adopted in at > least Hadoop, Giraph, Kafka and Hive. > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Bill Graham <[email protected]> wrote: >> The bottom of the how to contribute page still references the 'newbie' tag, >> with a link to a broken JIRA filter: >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PIG/HowToContribute >> >> We should swap in this link. Should we just change to use simple and get >> rid of the newbie tag? Or do we say to look for either? >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Dmitriy Ryaboy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I marked a few issues as "simple", and I noticed at some point earlier >>> we seem to have done a similar excercise labeling issues as "newbie". >>> If you are a newcomer wishing to contribute to the project, these >>> might be a good place to start. Check 'em out: >>> >>> >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+PIG+AND+%28labels+%3D+newbie+OR+labels+%3D+simple%29+and+status+%3D+open >>> >>> D >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> *Note that I'm no longer using my Yahoo! email address. Please email me at >> [email protected] going forward.*
