So, did we reach an agreement? Will "simple" be the standard? I also personally don't like newbie and acronyms are not self-explanatory.
Whatever we do we should document it in the wiki. Cheers, -- Gianmarco On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Jeremy Hanna <[email protected]>wrote: > 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.* > >
