As you have probably noticed, I'm engaged in a variety of initiatives to grow the community, bring in more volunteers, etc. One additional piece that I think would be useful is to add a new field to Bugzilla to indicate the difficulty level of the bug. Of course, this will often not be known. But in some cases, we do know, and where we do know we can indicate this.
What this allows us to do is then have search filters that return only open easy bugs. These are ideal for new developer volunteers on the project who are looking for items that match their lesser familiarity with the code. It also allows a developer to step up to more challenging bugs over time. A similar approach, which they called "easy hacks", was successfully used by LibreOffice. If there are no objections, I'll add a new field to Bugzilla called "cf_difficulty_level", and which a drop down UI with the following choices: UNKNOWN (default) TRIVIAL EASY MODERATE HARD WIZARD (I'm certainly open to variations on the names) I'd then rely on other developers to help "seed" the database with some TRIVIAL and EASY bugs, so new volunteers will have something to work with as they familiarize themselves with the project. I'll wait 72 hours, etc. Regards, -Rob
