<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Have a tag for first time contributor is a great idea.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">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. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Thanks and everyone (in the U.S.) have a Happy Thanksgiving,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">anthony.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Maish Saidel-Keesing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maishsk@maishsk.com" target="_blank">maishsk@maishsk.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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This is an awesome idea!!!!!!!<br>
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<div>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
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>[1] <a href="https://medium.com/@kentcdodds/first-timers-only-78281ea47455#.707dal290" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@kentcdodds/first-timers-only-78281ea47455#.707dal290</a></div>
<div>[2]<a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute#Bug_fixing" target="_blank"> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute#Bug_fixing</a></div>
<div>[3] <a href="http://up-for-grabs.net/" target="_blank">http://up-for-grabs.net/</a></div>
<div>[4] <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Bug_Tags" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Bug_Tags</a></div>
<div>[5] <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/" target="_blank">http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/</a></div>
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