<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><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 merged.</div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://medium.com/@kentcdodds/first-timers-only-78281ea47455#.707dal290">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"> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute#Bug_fixing</a></div><div>[3] <a href="http://up-for-grabs.net/">http://up-for-grabs.net/</a></div><div>[4] <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Bug_Tags">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Bug_Tags</a></div><div>[5] <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/">http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/</a></div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Thanks,</div><div style="font-size:small">Shamail Tahir</div><div style="font-size:small">t: @ShamailXD</div><div style="font-size:small">tz: Eastern Time</div></div></div></div></div>
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