#15640: Add "difficulty" field to tickets -------------------------------------+----------------------------- Reporter: flip101 | Owner: hvr Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Trac & Git | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Other Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+----------------------------- Comment (by osa1): I 100% support this. I'm currently trying to contribute to another compiler (just to get a taste of it after about 4 years of GHC work) and one of the things I do is to filter "easy" tickets and pick one from there. Most of them are actually almost objectively easy, so while the "subjectivity" is a problem I think that's not a too serious one. I think most of the time an experienced GHC hacker could guess difficulty of a ticket quite accurately.
Can be welcoming to newcomers who want to contribute to GHC to start with tickets with low priority. The new field should be searchable so they can get a list of all tickets with low difficulty
One of the things we should stop doing is fixing easy problems ourselves instead of marking tickets as "easy" (and "newcomers"). I know I sometimes do this and looking at the tickets I see a lot of other cases too. We should let the new contributors do these tickets. Simply enabling the field won't be enough for new contributors if we don't have any such tickets (because they're all fixed by experienced contributors). OTOH some of the simple issues are also quite annoying to the person who discovered it (e.g. a problem in a debug output or an incorrect assertion) so sometimes it's hard to resist the temptation to fix it ourselves. This is especially a problem if it turns out we don't have enough contributors and simple tickets stay unfixed for weeks/months. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15640#comment:2 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler