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

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Thu Nov 26 09:40:18 UTC 2015


Doug Hellmann wrote:
> 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.

Launchpad "tags" are per-project, so ideally you would find a pilot
project (or a few pilot projects) ready to play with a
"I-added-instructions-for-first-timers-to-follow" type tag. If those are
successful, we could then encourage every other project to adopt it too...

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)



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