Keeping the "Newcomers" wiki page alive

[Richard Eisenberg]

I like this idea.

Would it be a good idea to add a new "difficulty" classification for bugs that could flag them as newcomer-appropriate? I don't think "Easy" is this classification, because there are many bugs that are easy if you know exactly where to look but nigh impossible otherwise. If it were as easy as choosing a pull-down option in Trac, we might do better at keeping this list up to date.

(Yes, I know I planned to maintain the list, but that just wasn't realistic of me. Sorry.)

Richard

On Nov 12, 2014, at 5:20 PM, Isaac Hollander McCreery <ihmccreery at gmail.com> wrote:

> As a newcomer myself, yes, this is an important resource for me!
> 
> Actually, when I first saw that list, I assumed it was dynamically updated from Trac.  I've known other projects to track tickets with tags that correspond to difficulty:
> 
>     https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3AE-easy
> 
> I'm not familiar enough with Trac to know if this is possible, but perhaps this list could be dynamically updated, or at least link to Trac so that someone like me could see an up-to-date full list?
> 
> Thanks y'all,
> Ike
> 
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Jan Stolarek <jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl> wrote:
> Last year Richard created a wiki page for newcomers:
> 
>   https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers
> 
> One of assumptions was to store a list of low hanging fruits that newcomers can tackle:
> 
>   https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers#Fixingabug
> 
> But that list is far from exhaustive. Here's where your help is needed. Please remember that this
> page exists and whenever you report or encounter a simple bug or feature request please add it to
> the list on Newcomers page. Thanks.
> 
> Janek
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