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This is an awesome idea!!!!!!!

On 11/25/15 16:15, Shamail Tahir wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> [1] 
> https://medium.com/@kentcdodds/first-timers-only-78281ea47455#.707dal290
> [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute#Bug_fixing 
> <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute#Bug_fixing>
> [3] http://up-for-grabs.net/
> [4] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Bug_Tags
> [5] http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/
>
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Shamail Tahir
> t: @ShamailXD
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>
>
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Best Regards,
Maish Saidel-Keesing
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