Re: [Distutils] please mark good first issues in your projects

2018-04-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
In my experience (not just here but within Zulip, Wikimedia, Mailman, and other projects), this depends on the project's maintainers. If maintainers actively put the word out that a project is seeking new volunteers, respond to new questions and patches within a few days, and comment on finished i

please mark good first issues in your projects

2018-04-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Warehouse is attracting several newer contributors including people new to open source, which is great. As Warehouse matures, we have fewer and fewer easy small bugs *in the Python side* left. (So, we have more work for new frontend contributors, and less for Pythonists.) I'd love to refer these f