On 11/26/2013 10:03 AM, Brandon Sanderson wrote:
I'd definitely be in support of the change to easy tagging - I've seen quute a few issues where I've thought 'I could do this' but then realized I have no idea where to start. On 2013-11-26 12:59 AM, "Corey Richardson" <[email protected]> wrote:
Same for me. Even if it's obviously easy, even trivial, (1) there are usually some annoying, unknown points of the lang itself involved (2) we don't know the code base!
People seem never to take the latter point into account when tagging the difficulty level of an issue to be solved, while in fact it is the main barrier; not the difficulty of correcting the issue itself. A trivial, 3 min, correction can require weeks of discovering, understanding, "digesting", the relevant parts of the code base.
Side-note: as a consequence, "un-quality", in particular un-clarity, of a code base is for me the blocker #1 to participation. A possible good side-effect to this mentoring project is that it may help & improve code clarity and overall quality: novices will stump on numerous code issues, and mentors themselves will feel uneasy when having to explain "bad" parts of the code. ==> amelioration
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