On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 11:53 AM Paul Hobson via NumPy-Discussion < [email protected]> wrote:
> A lot of projects will have issues tagged as something like "Good first > issue". Numpy doesn't do that, but they do tag their documentation issues > as such: > > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%2204%20-%20Documentation%22 > We have "sprintable" issues, instead, which occupies a distinct but similar niche; small, well-specified fixes that could be made with a short effort, but probably with some guidance. However, we chose that over "good first issue" deliberately because they are usually not any more "beginner-friendly" than other issues. NumPy is a mature project sitting at the bottom dependency of a lot of tech stacks. The kinds of work that needs to be done on it frequently involve judgement calls, rather than coding skills, that need to be made with experience at least using numpy and its ecosystem for a good while. We're not the best project for those who are new to open source (this is a statement about us, not a value judgement on those new contributors). That said, you can take a look at the set of sprintable issues, and if one of them leaps out at you as something you specifically know about and care about, that you have run into yourself, you may well be the person in the best position to address it. https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20(label%3Asprintable%20OR%20label%3A%22sprintable%20-%20C%22) -- Robert Kern
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