Hi,
> On Nov 25, 2015, at 10:51 PM, Anthony Chow <vcloudernb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Have a tag for first time contributor is a great idea. > > On the other hand we should not take out the "low hanging fruit" tag. I > contribute to OpenStack on my spare time and in my current situation I can > only work on the low hanging fruits. If the first time tag is replacing the > low hanging fruit then it will be more difficult for me to find bugs that I > can work on. Great point. An additional tag probably makes sense in this scenario. > > Thanks and everyone (in the U.S.) have a Happy Thanksgiving, > > anthony. > >> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Maish Saidel-Keesing <mais...@maishsk.com> >> wrote: >> 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 >>> [3] http://up-for-grabs.net/ >>> [4] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Bug_Tags >>> [5] http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/ >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Thanks, >>> Shamail Tahir >>> t: @ShamailXD >>> tz: Eastern Time >>> >>> >>> __________________________________________________________________________ >>> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >>> Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> -- >> Best Regards, >> Maish Saidel-Keesing >> >> __________________________________________________________________________ >> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >> Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
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