This is an awesome idea!!!!!!!
On 11/25/15 16:15, Shamail Tahir wrote:
Hi everyone,
Andrew Mitry recently shared a medium post[1] by Kent C. Dobbs which
discusses how one open-source project is encouraging contributions by
new open-source contributors through a combination of a special tag
(which is associated with work that is needed but can only be
completed by someone who is a first-time contributor) and helpful
comments in the review phase to ensure the contribution(s) eventually
get merged.
While reading the article, I immediately thought about our
low-hanging-fruit bug tag which is used for a very similar purpose in
"bug fixing" section of the "how to contribute" page[2]. The
low-hanging-fruit tag is used to identify items that are generally
suitable for first-time or beginner contributors but, in reality,
anyone can pick them up.
I wanted to propose a new tag (or even changing the, existing,
low-hanging fruit tag) that would identify items that we are reserving
for first-time OpenStack contributors (e.g. a patch-set for the item
submitted by someone who is not a first time contributor would be
rejected)... The same article that Andrew shared mentions using an
"up-for-grabs" tag which also populates the items at up-for-grabs[3]
(a site where people looking to start working on open-source projects
see entry-level items from multiple projects). If we move forward
with an exclusive tag for first-timers then it would be nice if we
could use the up-for-grabs tag so that OpenStack also shows up on the
list too. Please let me know if this change should be proposed
elsewhere, the tags are maintained in launchpad and the wiki I found
related to bug tags[4] didn't indicate a procedure for submitting a
change proposal.
Tyler Britten also suggested maybe even having a pool of reviewers who
could monitor items being worked on that fall in this "first-timer"
category who could further help the new contributors by helpful review
comments and answering questions if the contributors get stuck on some
part of the process. Could this be the same people who helped make
the upstream training[5] successful? I look forward to thoughts on
this matter.
[1]
https://medium.com/@kentcdodds/first-timers-only-78281ea47455#.707dal290
[2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute#Bug_fixing
<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute#Bug_fixing>
[3] http://up-for-grabs.net/
[4] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Bug_Tags
[5] http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/
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Thanks,
Shamail Tahir
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Maish Saidel-Keesing
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