fwiw - the cassandra project adopted lhf for "low hanging fruit" to avoid being condescending but yeah - sounds like newbie has become a standard for other projects.
e.g. https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+12310865+AND+labels+%3D+lhf+AND+status+!%3D+resolved On May 5, 2012, at 9:57 PM, Jakob Homan wrote: > I agree. My choice had been 'starter-issues.' Oh, well. > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Dmitriy Ryaboy <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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.*
