How about:<div>First timers assign a bug to a mentor and the mentor takes responsibility for the first timer learning from the bug to completion. </div><div><br></div><div>Per project, a few people volunteer themselves <span></span>as mentors. As easy as responding to [project][mentor] emails. <br><br>On Monday, November 30, 2015, Sean Dague <<a href="mailto:sean@dague.net">sean@dague.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 11/25/2015 03:22 PM, Shamail wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
>> On Nov 25, 2015, at 11:05 PM, Doug Hellmann <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'doug@doughellmann.com')">doug@doughellmann.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Excerpts from Shamail Tahir's message of 2015-11-25 09:15:54 -0500:<br>
>>> Hi everyone,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Andrew Mitry recently shared a medium post[1] by Kent C. Dobbs which<br>
>>> discusses how one open-source project is encouraging contributions by new<br>
>>> open-source contributors through a combination of a special tag (which is<br>
>>> associated with work that is needed but can only be completed by someone<br>
>>> who is a first-time contributor) and helpful comments in the review phase<br>
>>> to ensure the contribution(s) eventually get merged.<br>
>>><br>
>>> While reading the article, I immediately thought about our<br>
>>> low-hanging-fruit bug tag which is used for a very similar purpose in "bug<br>
>>> fixing" section of the "how to contribute" page[2]. The low-hanging-fruit<br>
>>> tag is used to identify items that are generally suitable for first-time or<br>
>>> beginner contributors but, in reality, anyone can pick them up.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I wanted to propose a new tag (or even changing the, existing, low-hanging<br>
>>> fruit tag) that would identify items that we are reserving for first-time<br>
>>> OpenStack contributors (e.g. a patch-set for the item submitted by someone<br>
>>> who is not a first time contributor would be rejected)... The same article<br>
>>> that Andrew shared mentions using an "up-for-grabs" tag which also<br>
>>> populates the items at up-for-grabs[3] (a site where people looking to<br>
>>> start working on open-source projects see entry-level items from multiple<br>
>>> projects). If we move forward with an exclusive tag for first-timers then<br>
>>> it would be nice if we could use the up-for-grabs tag so that OpenStack<br>
>>> also shows up on the list too. Please let me know if this change should be<br>
>>> proposed elsewhere, the tags are maintained in launchpad and the wiki I<br>
>>> found related to bug tags[4] didn't indicate a procedure for submitting a<br>
>>> change proposal.<br>
>><br>
>> I like the idea of making bugs suitable for first-timers more<br>
>> discoverable. I'm not sure we need to *reserve* any bugs for any class<br>
>> of contributor. What benefit do you think that provides?<br>
> I would have to defer to additional feedback here...<br>
><br>
> My own perspective from when I was doing my first contribution is that it was hard to find active "low-hanging-fruit" items. Most were already work-in-progress or assigned.<br>
<br>
This was a direct consequence of us dropping the auto-abandoning of old<br>
code reviews in gerrit. When a review is abandoned the bug is flipped<br>
back to New instead of In Progress.<br>
<br>
I found quite often people go and gobble up bugs assigning them to<br>
themselves, but don't make real progress on them. Then new contributors<br>
show up, and don't work on any of those issues because our tools say<br>
someone is already on top of it.<br>
<br>
-Sean<br>
<br>
--<br>
Sean Dague<br>
<a href="http://dague.net" target="_blank">http://dague.net</a><br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br>-- <br>~sean<br>