Keeping the "Newcomers" wiki page alive
Richard Eisenberg
eir at cis.upenn.edu
Thu Nov 13 01:42:30 UTC 2014
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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