Keeping the "Newcomers" wiki page alive

[Richard Eisenberg]

Forgive me if I'm repeating others' comments, but the newcomer label, to me, is independent of level of difficulty -- it has much more to do with how "messy" the work is, I think.

I'll make a concrete proposal: Tag appropriate bugs/feature requests with "newcomer" and, if you want, mention that you'll mentor in a comment. I don't think there's a glaring need to be able to search by mentor, so I'm not proposing a Trac field for that.

If I see here that a few others will adopt this proposal, I'll start doing it -- I already have several tickets in mind.

Richard

On Nov 12, 2014, at 6:27 PM, Isaac Hollander McCreery <ihmccreery at gmail.com> wrote:

> Glad people are excited about this,
> 
> I like "beginner/intermediate/advanced".  I think it's more accurate than "easy/hard" and clearer than "accessible", "welcoming", etc.
> 
> I also want to call out the "mentor" label that the Rust team is using: experienced devs nominate themselves as mentors on projects, then newcomers can tackle them with some support.  As a newcomer, that's *extremely* appealing to me.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ike
> 
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> The quality that we are looking for is “tacklabe by a newcomer“, i.e.
> not requiring too deep knowledge of GHC. Is there a nice word for that?
> I found “accessible”, “welcoming”, “appealing” – anything that sounds
> good in native English speaker’s ears? :-)
> 
> Various projects I'm involved with use
> 
> difficulty: beginner (or just "beginner")
> babydev-bait (!)
> newcomer (several use "newbie" but I do not recommend that label)
> 
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