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Create Twitter bot to promote good first-timer issues on R packages #20

Open hturner opened 6 years ago

hturner commented 6 years ago

We could create a tweetbot to tweet new good first-timer issues on R packages.

The GitHub API (https://api.github.com/search/issues) could be used to search for issues on R packages that are good for first timers (is:open is:issue language:r label:good-first-issue) or people with more experience (label:help-wanted).

We'd need to work with others in community to promote these labels (which were relatively recently set as defaults by GitHub https://help.github.com/articles/about-labels/). E.g. https://ropensci.shinyapps.io/contributr/ currently users Beginner.

This is not specific to under-represented groups, but is something we could point people to help people from such groups get more involved.

cwickham commented 6 years ago

I like it! I wonder if there is a similar way to automate celebrating first time contributors too. I.e. a tweetbot that tweets when a github user gets a pull request merged for the first time.