It would be useful to have an ability for potential contributors to
search for entry-level bugs. That way, people who are interested to
contribute, but are not yet familiar with code base, may easily find how
to help.
I suggest allowing tagging bug reports as "easy" and/or "no code
needed". Then, a dedicated tab in woof overview page could show only the
easy bugs.
WDYT?
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Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
> It would be useful to have an ability for potential contributors to
> search for entry-level bugs. That way, people who are interested to
> contribute, but are not yet familiar with code base, may easily find how
> to help.
>
> I suggest allowing tagging bug reports as "easy" and/or "no code
> needed". Then, a dedicated tab in woof overview page could show only the
> easy bugs.
>
> WDYT?
I've discussed with many FLOSS maintainers using the goodfirstissue
convention for naming issues in GitHub. In general, this is not very
effective: these issues are generally seen as boring or trivial, and
get quickly fixed by experienced contributors, not beginners.
I would rather recommend writing a contributor guide for beginners so
that they learn how to tackle issues (easy or difficult ones) faster.
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