Hi everyone, I was asked again recently to identify some potential tasks for various keen members of the community who want to help. We have done this to some degree in the past using various labels on jira tickets but I think perhaps we could look at potential improvements to how we identify and advertise such tasks.
There were two things I was going to try. Firstly, some better consistency in our labels: we currently use these labels (at least - maybe more): beginner, easyfix, contrib, newbie, and help-requested. I was going to try to shrink that list. Secondly, I was thinking we could perhaps use Apache's helpwanted app/page: https://helpwanted.apache.org/. I don't know how popular or widely known it is but it seems worth a try. Thoughts or suggested tickets are welcome. My initial goal will just be to get a small backlog of such tasks available using a consistent label scheme and fed into the helpwanted app. I am happy to get the ball rolling and advertise what naming scheme I end up selecting (and adding that to the docs) but it will work best if a few folks chime in and get their favourite tasks added to the list(s). We don't need an extensive list of tasks, just ones that are easy for contributors to identify and for us to identify too so that we can ensure they remain up to date and contain the needed info for contributors to get started relatively easily. For anyone interested, the search I used: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8044?jql=project%20%3D%20GROOVY%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened)%20AND%20labels%20in%20(beginner%2C%20easyfix%2C%20contrib%2C%20newbie%2C%20help-requested) Cheers, Paul.
