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Adopt first_timers_only label #76

Open coala-bot opened 7 years ago

coala-bot commented 7 years ago

http://www.firsttimersonly.com - should we rename/relabel/also-label (some of) our newcomer as first_timers_only ? https://mobile.twitter.com/first_tmrs_only

Opened via gitter by @jayvdb

meetmangukiya commented 7 years ago

There is up-for-grabs as well, why should we prefer this over that?

palash25 commented 6 years ago

This is a good idea since new contributors sometimes ask for more than one difficulty/newcomer issue and they are to be told to go for a higher difficulty issues. IMO the first-timers-only label makes it explicitly clear that only a first-timer can solve this issue, this might prevent newcomers from asking for assignment to multiple easy issues and encourage them to move on to harder ones.

Makman2 commented 6 years ago

I proposed recently to decouple our difficulty/newcomer label from the newcomer-eligibility. We would have a difficulty/trivial label and another newcomer label which marks issues to be suitable for newcomers.

jayvdb commented 6 years ago

first_timers_only is for people new to open source.

It is very clear.

However I guess a problem we have is that we are not well suited to truly first timers, with all our git rules and such. We are newbie unfriendly, for most definitions of newbie.

We have a niche market: newbies who are take rejection exceedingly well and will RTFM, will appreciate the manual, and are fairly pedantic about following the rules by the second or third attempt. If we dont get the PR merged after a few attempts, we typically loose them.