On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 8:46 PM Steve Dower <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 26Jul.2019 1909, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > See the thread 'The trouble with "Easy" issues' in > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. > > Essentially those "easy" issues aren't so easy, and we're starting over. > > Couldn't that be achieved just as easily by removing the "Easy" and > "Easy (C)" tags from everything and coming up with a better definition? > > I agree they haven't been a great source of bugs for the sprints I've > helped coordinate, but I don't think the problem is the label. But I > assume the bikeshedding over the name has been done on the private list. Hardly. But a new label is easier to set up, and doesn't erase any information. > > Most of the trouble is there are many pending PRs that have not been > merged, and so maybe 3/4 of the issues are not actually available. (My > suspicion is that the delay in CLA handling is a significant factor > here, as many PRs can't be merged during the sprint itself, and we're > not so good at following up later.) > > (As an aside, the best first issue is usually the one the new > contributor cares about most, regardless of difficulty. Finding > something "suitable" for someone with no preferences or interests is > never going to be easy.) That's so true! --Guido -- --Guido (mobile)
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