On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: > The existing help tag is really for bugs for which the maintainer needs > or wants help; these are basically a superset of entry-point, and bugs > which are more difficult than it would be reasonable for a new > contributor to help. > > I suppose it would be reasonable for bugs which are tagged entry-point > to also be tagged help, but I'm not going to mandate that.
In fact, I believe they should be mostly disjoint. As a maintainer, I welcome help on all bugs. When I tag a bug help it's because I believe that I don't have the skills to fix it by myself and that external help is really needed to make some progress. On the contrary, a bug tagged "entry-point" is a bug that I can perfectly fix by myself but that I don't handle immediately because I believe that it would be a good task for a new contributor to jump in (and possibly also because I have other more pressing things to do). So we should possibly update the descriptions of the tags accordingly. What do you think? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141112101223.gi27...@home.ouaza.com
