[openstack-dev] Encouraging first-time contributors through bug tags/reviews

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Wed Nov 25 21:53:14 UTC 2015


Excerpts from Shamail's message of 2015-11-26 02:07:55 +0500:
> 
> > On Nov 26, 2015, at 1:42 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
> > 
> > OK, reserving bugs for new contributors does reduce the number of
> > people contending for them, but it doesn't eliminate the need to
> > figure out if someone else is already working on a bug before you
> > start. Encouraging folks to assign bugs to themselves when they start
> > work is probably the best way to solve that.
> +1, I think most do a good job at this.
> 
> Where do you think is the appropriate place to formally ask for a new tag and/or reservations?  

This list is a good place to ask for a tag like that. It's also a good
topic for the cross-project meetings.

> 
> I'd also appreciate any feedback from the people who have worked on the upstream training before each summit... Did you experience any issues finding available items for the people to work on?  How do you guide the new contributors to help them discover low-hanging-fruit?
> 
> Thanks,
> Shamail 
> 



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