[Numpy-discussion] Setting up a "newcomers" label on the issue tracker ?

[Aldcroft, Thomas]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Sebastian Berg <
> sebastian at 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


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