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    This is an awesome idea!!!!!!!<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/25/15 16:15, Shamail Tahir wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,
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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
          merged.</div>
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://medium.com/@kentcdodds/first-timers-only-78281ea47455#.707dal290">https://medium.com/@kentcdodds/first-timers-only-78281ea47455#.707dal290</a></div>
        <div>[2]<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            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 moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://up-for-grabs.net/">http://up-for-grabs.net/</a></div>
        <div>[4] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Bug_Tags">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Bug_Tags</a></div>
        <div>[5] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/">http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/</a></div>
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                  <div style="font-size:small">Thanks,</div>
                  <div style="font-size:small">Shamail Tahir</div>
                  <div style="font-size:small">t: @ShamailXD</div>
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      Best Regards,<br>
      Maish Saidel-Keesing</div>
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