[Numpy-discussion] Setting up a "newcomers" label on the issue tracker ?

[Thomas Robitaille]

The issue with 'low hanging fruit' is that who is it low-hanging fruit
for? Low hanging fruit for a core dev may be days of work for a
newcomer. Also, 'newcomer' doesn't give a good idea of how long it will
take.

I would therefore like to second Tom Aldcroft's suggestion of following
something like what we have in astropy:

- effort-low, effort-medium, and effort-high (=hours, days, long-term)

- package-novice, package-intermediate, package-expert

This really covers the range of options. For newcomers that want to do
something quick you can point them to package-novice & effort-low. When
someone new to the project wants to get more involved (or for e.g.
GSoC), you can point them to e.g. package-novice & effort-high. If one
of the core devs is bored and wants to kill some time, they can go to
package-expert & effort-low.

We've found this very helpful in Astropy and we use it in all related
packages, so I want to put in a strong recommendation for following the
same model here too, and I want to recommend the same for matplotlib and
scipy.

Cheers,
Tom

Benjamin Root wrote:
> FWIW, matplotlib calls it "low hanging fruit". I think it is a better
> name than "newcomers".
> 
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Aldcroft, Thomas
> <aldcroft at head.cfa.harvard.edu <mailto:aldcroft at head.cfa.harvard.edu>>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Charles R Harris
>     <charlesr.harris at gmail.com <mailto:charlesr.harris at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>         On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Sebastian Berg
>         <sebastian at sipsolutions.net <mailto:sebastian at sipsolutions.net>>
>         wrote:
> 
>             On Mi, 2014-11-26 at 08:44 +0000, David Cournapeau wrote:
>             > Hi,
>             >
>             >
>             > Would anybody mind if I create a label "newcomers" on GH,
>             and start
>             > labelling simple issues ?
> 
>             We actually have an "easy fix" label, which I think had this
>             in mind.
>             However, I admit that I think some of these issues may not
>             be easy at
>             all (I guess it depends on what you consider easy ;)). In
>             any case, I
>             think just go ahead with creating a new label or reusing the
>             current
>             one. "easy fix" might be a starting point to find some
>             candidate issues.
> 
>             - Sebsatian
> 
>             >
>             >
>             > This is in anticipation to the bloomberg lab event in
>             London this WE.
>             > I will try to give a hand to people interested in numpy/scipy,
> 
> 
>         There is also a documentation label, and about 30 tickets with
>         that label. That should be good for just practicing the mechanics.
> 
> 
>     FWIW in astropy we settled on two properties, level of effort and
>     level of sub-package expertise, with corresponding labels:
> 
>     - effort-low, effort-medium, and effort-high
>     - package-novice, package-intermediate, package-expert
> 
>     This has been used with reasonable success.
> 
>     - Tom
>      
> 
> 
>         Chuck
> 
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