Forgive me if I'm repeating others' comments, but the newcomer label, to me, is independent of level of difficulty -- it has much more to do with how "messy" the work is, I think.

I'll make a concrete proposal: Tag appropriate bugs/feature requests with "newcomer" and, if you want, mention that you'll mentor in a comment. I don't think there's a glaring need to be able to search by mentor, so I'm not proposing a Trac field for that.

If I see here that a few others will adopt this proposal, I'll start doing it -- I already have several tickets in mind.

Richard

On Nov 12, 2014, at 6:27 PM, Isaac Hollander McCreery <ihmccreery@gmail.com> wrote:

Glad people are excited about this,

I like "beginner/intermediate/advanced".  I think it's more accurate than "easy/hard" and clearer than "accessible", "welcoming", etc.

I also want to call out the "mentor" label that the Rust team is using: experienced devs nominate themselves as mentors on projects, then newcomers can tackle them with some support.  As a newcomer, that's *extremely* appealing to me.

Cheers,
Ike

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
The quality that we are looking for is “tacklabe by a newcomer“, i.e.
not requiring too deep knowledge of GHC. Is there a nice word for that?
I found “accessible”, “welcoming”, “appealing” – anything that sounds
good in native English speaker’s ears? :-)

Various projects I'm involved with use

difficulty: beginner (or just "beginner")
babydev-bait (!)
newcomer (several use "newbie" but I do not recommend that label)

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