On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Mike Hoye <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2015-01-27 1:43 PM, Nicholas Alexander wrote:
>
>>
>> Can we get somebody with more Bugzilla-fu to address this?  If we drop
>> the "list_id", can we share this?  Can we name these queries?  I'm CCing
>> mhoye and lizzard, who I think both are master bug wranglers and might be
>> able to help.
>>
>
> I think you're overcomplicating things with second/third bugs, tbh. We've
> got good-first, good-next, diamond and experience-required as categories,
> as described here:
>

I kind of agree. We could just label good-next and be done. I think
good-second, good-third begins to get a bit too subjective on the part of
the labeler.


> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/Coding/Mentoring
>
> ... but rather than expect users to search on and find good-Nth bugs,
> you'll have far more success (and way better retention!) by pointing newish
> contributors to a next bug after they've completed a first one rather than
> hoping that they'll pick one up themselves.
>

I see this already happening in some bugs.


>
> "Thank you! While that patch is getting merged, would you like to take a
> look at this other bug? It looks like a good fit for your skills."
>
> Expressing gratitude and saying you'd like to keep working with someone
> will do way more for your community than any regex. Do the search for them
> at first, you'll see people start to pick up their own bugs soon enough.
>
>
I think the list of bugs is such that even we need some quick searches to
find the next bug.
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