<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>If I see here that a few others will adopt this proposal, I'll start doing it -- I already have several tickets in mind.</div><div><br></div><div>Richard</div><br><div><div>On Nov 12, 2014, at 6:27 PM, Isaac Hollander McCreery <<a href="mailto:ihmccreery@gmail.com">ihmccreery@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Glad people are excited about this,</div><div><br></div>I like "beginner/intermediate/advanced". I think it's more accurate than "easy/hard" and clearer than "accessible", "welcoming", etc.<div><br></div><div>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.<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ike</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Brandon Allbery <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Joachim Breitner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@joachim-breitner.de" target="_blank">mail@joachim-breitner.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow:hidden">The quality that we are looking for is “tacklabe by a newcomer“, i.e.<br>
not requiring too deep knowledge of GHC. Is there a nice word for that?<br>
I found “accessible”, “welcoming”, “appealing” – anything that sounds<br>
good in native English speaker’s ears? :-)<br></div></blockquote></div><br></span>Various projects I'm involved with use</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">difficulty: beginner (or just "beginner")</div><div class="gmail_extra">babydev-bait (!)</div><div class="gmail_extra">newcomer (several use "newbie" but I do not recommend that label)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net/" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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