New submission from Guido van Rossum:
Majiek just showed (at the language summit) that bpo auto-closes issues when
the commit mentions e.g. "closes bpo-". Can you please also support
fix/fixes? That's what I'm used to writing for GitHub.
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Guido van Rossum added the comment:
Thanks Berker! I agree the discussion shouldn't be narrowly about the
keywords and how to assign them -- we could also do a better job of guiding
new contributors. From Shubeksha's blog post it seems that we're doing
almost nothing in this area -- people
Guido van Rossum added the comment:
The term "well defined" would not resonate with people looking for starter
bugs. Read this piece for an overview of how other projects (esp. Mozilla)
try to lure new contributors, and how that's seen by someone eager to
contribute:
https://
Guido van Rossum added the comment:
Go for that!
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Berker Peksag <
metatrac...@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> wrote:
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> Berker Peksag added the comment:
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> I don't see a lot of C issues in the "easy issues" list. I agree that some
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Guido van Rossum added the comment:
Those two sounds great -- maybe also add "easy documentation issue"?
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Brett C. <
metatrac...@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> wrote:
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> Brett C. added the comment:
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> Adding a new keyword isn't hard
New submission from Guido van Rossum:
It was pointed out to me:
> Would you also please point out to everybody, and I really do mean
> everybody, at "Search" on the left hand side of the screen under "Issues".
> Better yet make it the default, as it's vastly supe
New submission from Guido van Rossum:
I've noticed we have a lot of "easy" issues on bugs.python.org that are only
easy if you're fluent in C. We have (potentially) many new incoming
contributors who aren't (yet) at that level but who would be happy to help out
with other tasks
