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 > <aldcr...@head.cfa.harvard.edu <mailto:aldcr...@head.cfa.harvard.edu>> > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Charles R Harris > <charlesr.har...@gmail.com <mailto:charlesr.har...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Sebastian Berg > <sebast...@sipsolutions.net <mailto:sebast...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org <mailto:NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org> > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org <mailto:NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org> > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion