In the Cassandra project, we mark them as low hanging fruit - "lhf" - so people don't feel like they're necessarily newbies, but +1 on the idea of marking them for new users. +1 on the How To Contribute page too.
On Jan 4, 2012, at 12:02 AM, Harsh J wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been going over the list of JIRAs open and I've been marking some with > the label 'newbie' to indicate that its newcomer-doable. Do you all agree on > this practice, to help make entry of community contributors easier? > > The following URL is the filter of such JIRA items and should be added to a > 'How to contribute' page once its available: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator!executeAdvanced.jspa?jqlQuery=labels+%3D+newbie+and+project+%3D+Oozie&runQuery=true&clear=true
