On 26Jul.2019 1909, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> See the thread 'The trouble with "Easy" issues' in
> core-mentorship@python.org <mailto:core-mentorship@python.org>.
> 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.

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.)