Puja and I were discussing having issues in JIRA that are pretty straightforward to fix and would provide a good way to get new developers' feet wet on the code base.
I looked at the Accumulo JIRA and it seems like they label this as 'newbie' issues. I think we should adopt this convention as well and I've started using it. For example: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RYA-22 It's fairly easy to search by label in JIRA. But here's a link for all of the open "newbie" issues for Rya: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20RYA%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20newbie --Aaron
