llvm dev - Jun 2017 - "Beginner" keyword for LLVM Bugzilla?

Hello all!

I mailed the list about this yesterday, but as a reply to another
email [1], so maybe it got lost: could we add a "beginner" keyword to
LLVM Bugzilla, so that contributors could classify bugs as relatively
simple to fix?

LLVM Bugzilla has keywords like "code-cleanup" and
"code-quality",
which describe the nature of the PR [2]. I think a "beginner" keyword
would be a good addition for people who wish to contribute to LLVM,
but don't know where to begin.

Anecdotally, I found it very easy to contribute to Apple's Swift
project, thanks to the fact that their JIRA instance at bugs.swift.org
has a "StarterBug" label. Not all of the bugs labeled this way were as
easy as the reporter claimed, but it did help me avoid working on
impenetrable problems.

I would be happy to add the "beginner" keyword myself, but I don't
have the permissions to add keywords to Bugzilla. Can someone help me
add it? Or does anyone have thoughts on why we shouldn't add this
keyword?

Thanks!

[1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-June/114793.html
[2] https://bugs.llvm.org/describekeywords.cgi

- Brian Gesiak

Seems like a good idea.

Done :)

-eric

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 2:48 PM Brian Gesiak via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I mailed the list about this yesterday, but as a reply to another
> email [1], so maybe it got lost: could we add a "beginner"
keyword to
> LLVM Bugzilla, so that contributors could classify bugs as relatively
> simple to fix?
>
> LLVM Bugzilla has keywords like "code-cleanup" and
"code-quality",
> which describe the nature of the PR [2]. I think a "beginner"
keyword
> would be a good addition for people who wish to contribute to LLVM,
> but don't know where to begin.
>
> Anecdotally, I found it very easy to contribute to Apple's Swift
> project, thanks to the fact that their JIRA instance at bugs.swift.org
> has a "StarterBug" label. Not all of the bugs labeled this way
were as
> easy as the reporter claimed, but it did help me avoid working on
> impenetrable problems.
>
> I would be happy to add the "beginner" keyword myself, but I
don't
> have the permissions to add keywords to Bugzilla. Can someone help me
> add it? Or does anyone have thoughts on why we shouldn't add this
> keyword?
>
> Thanks!
>
> [1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-June/114793.html
> [2] https://bugs.llvm.org/describekeywords.cgi
>
> - Brian Gesiak
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Thanks, Eric!

I'm not the best qualified to determine what's a beginner bug or not
in LLVM, but if anyone on the list has some PRs that they think are
relatively simple, please try labeling them as "beginner".

- Brian