Hey Gláucia, we do use the "good first issue" label. In my experience I've seen mixed results with it - sometimes it is a good starting point, other times folks self-assign the issues and then never make progress on them. It is also challenging to enforce a consistent quality of "good first issue" (some may end up being too hard, and the easier ones are the first to go anyways). Overall, I think it probably helps, but definitely doesn't fully solve the problem. Anecdotally, I think people tend to get better traction when they come to the repo with a specific problem to solve that they've encountered using Beam, though obviously that's a much more narrow funnel.
Thanks, Danny On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 8:43 AM Gláucia Esppenchutz <glauesp...@apache.org> wrote: > Dear Apache Beam community, > > My name is Gláucia and I work in the Diversity initiative in Apache Org. > We are setting up a project to engage more volunteers in Apache, and bring > more diversity and inclusion to our community. > > This project aims to incentivize other Apache projects to adopt the "Good > First Issues" tag in their less complex issues, making people more > comfortable and welcome to contribute. > > However, before starting it, we wanted to hear your experience using this > tag in GitHub. Do people use this as a first step to start contributing to > the project? > Do you think it breaks a barrier and makes people feel less intimidated to > contribute? > > This feedback will be very important to us to understand how to conduct > the project and encourage minorities who are frequently afraid to take the > first step in an open-source project contribution. > > Many thanks in advance. > > Gláucia >
