Improve ability for first time contributors to get involved

[dcwalk]

See conversation in #172 about standard labels. Being more accessible to new contributors has been brought up in slack a few times now, but winds up backburnered.

I think we should make a first attempt at this, proposing the following to mark complete:

• [ ] Add first-timer labels to active project repos and assign at least 1 issue
  • [x] overview
  • [x] edgi-scripts
  • [x] edgi-hubot-halpy
  • [ ] web-monitoring-processing
  • [x] eis-search
  • [ ] web-monitoring-versionista-scraper
  • [ ] web-monitoring-ops
  • [x] web-monitoring-db
  • [x] web-monitoring
  • [x] web-monitoring-ui
  • [ ] matterbridge-heroku
  • [x] edgi-website
  • [ ] archivers-greetingslack
  • [ ] halpy-ng
  • [ ] 100days
  • [x] awesome-website-change-monitoring
  • [ ] edgi-acronym-expander-browser-ext
  • [x] video-call-landing-page
  • [ ] eot-nomination-tool
• [x] Verify all active project repos have contributing guidelines
  • [x] overview
  • [x] edgi-scripts
  • [x] edgi-hubot-halpy
  • [x] web-monitoring-processing
  • [x] eis-search
  • [x] web-monitoring-versionista-scraper
  • [x] web-monitoring-ops
  • [x] web-monitoring-db
  • [x] web-monitoring
  • [x] web-monitoring-ui
  • [x] matterbridge-heroku
  • [x] edgi-website
  • [x] archivers-greetingslack
  • [x] halpy-ng
  • [x] 100days
  • [x] awesome-website-change-monitoring
  • [x] edgi-acronym-expander-browser-ext
  • [x] video-call-landing-page
  • [x] eot-nomination-tool
• [ ] Register our project as first-timer friendly on http://up-for-grabs.net

[dcwalk]

There are some other "newcomer friendly" OS project registries but I've lost 'em recently. I believe OpenHatch is no longer active.

Anyone else have ones in mind?

[dcwalk]

And a link-dump:

• https://yourfirstpr.github.io/
• https://medium.com/@kentcdodds/first-timers-only-78281ea47455
• https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners
• https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/01/03/making-your-open-source-project-newcomer-friendly/
• http://makeapullrequest.com/
• http://www.codenewbie.org/

[patcon]

Just to say it in the right place, I do lean toward first-timer-only, as I think it's more self-documenting of intention, but happy to kick that convo to a later time in the interest of not bikeshedding (because everything else is very actionable!)

[Frijol]

Per our new stale issues policy:

This issue has been marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed in seven days if no further activity occurs. If it should not be closed, please comment! Thank you for your contributions.

In the future, a robot will take care of this process!

[Frijol]

We should still do this! I might have some time this week

[Frijol]

This spreadsheet notes which of EDGI's active repos have/don't have Contributing.md and issues marked for first-timers

[Frijol]

I added a checklist of active repos based on https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/overview/issues/217

[Frijol]

Direct link to all EDGI "good-first-issue" issues: https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Agood-first-issue+user%3Aedgi-govdata-archiving

[Frijol]

I checked over a lot of the repos that don't have "good first issue" labels and there really aren't a lot of issues that would be good for new folks–  ok to resolve?

I also looked over a bunch of the links for how to list our sites as up-for-grabs etc. but came away unsure how to actually list our stuff. I've done this before for other projects & remember it being easy (e.g. just enter a label name and repo URL) but I'm not seeing it now. Any suggestions?