llvm dev - Dec 2017 - Beginner Bugs - Need help tagging

Anna Zaks, David Blaikie and I have been at Grace Hopper Conference for the last
couple days talking to many people about LLVM and how to get involved in the
project. Its been discussed many times before at LLVM Developer Meetings and
recently on the mailing list about tagging bugs with the “beginner” keyword and
that keyword was recently added to the LLVM Bugzilla. However, there are very
few bugs(12) actually in Bugzilla with this keyword:
https://bugs.llvm.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=beginner&list_id=125621

It would be a huge help and a benefit to the growth of the community if we could
tag more bugs with this keyword. If several members of the community could tag
just 5 bugs with this keyword we could easily increase the number of bugs
suitable for beginners.

I know everyone is very busy but there are so many students and newcomers that
could greatly benefit from this. Please consider helping if you can.

Thank you,
Tanya

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Tanya Lattner via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Anna Zaks, David Blaikie and I have been at Grace Hopper Conference for the
last couple days talking to many people about LLVM and how to get involved in
the project. Its been discussed many times before at LLVM Developer Meetings and
recently on the mailing list about tagging bugs with the “beginner” keyword and
that keyword was recently added to the LLVM Bugzilla. However, there are very
few bugs(12) actually in Bugzilla with this keyword:
https://bugs.llvm.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=beginner&list_id=125621
>
> It would be a huge help and a benefit to the growth of the community if we
could tag more bugs with this keyword. If several members of the community could
tag just 5 bugs with this keyword we could easily increase the number of bugs
suitable for beginners.
>
Many of these bugs have been touched/marked in the last 3 months, but
none of them has been picked yet.
I'm not sure what's the cause, and I don't belong to the marketing
department, but my feeling is that it's not enough marking bugs with a
beginner keyword to give them visibility. Probably a "contribute" page
on llvm.org or mentioning them on http://llvm.org/OpenProjects.html
(if they're not already, I was able to find only mentions to `code
cleanups`), would help.

--
Davide

> On Oct 5, 2017, at 6:59 PM, Davide Italiano <davide at freebsd.org>
wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Tanya Lattner via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> Anna Zaks, David Blaikie and I have been at Grace Hopper Conference for
the last couple days talking to many people about LLVM and how to get involved
in the project. Its been discussed many times before at LLVM Developer Meetings
and recently on the mailing list about tagging bugs with the “beginner” keyword
and that keyword was recently added to the LLVM Bugzilla. However, there are
very few bugs(12) actually in Bugzilla with this keyword:
https://bugs.llvm.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=beginner&list_id=125621
>> 
>> It would be a huge help and a benefit to the growth of the community if
we could tag more bugs with this keyword. If several members of the community
could tag just 5 bugs with this keyword we could easily increase the number of
bugs suitable for beginners.
>> 
> 
> Many of these bugs have been touched/marked in the last 3 months, but
> none of them has been picked yet.
> I'm not sure what's the cause, and I don't belong to the
marketing
> department, but my feeling is that it's not enough marking bugs with a
> beginner keyword to give them visibility. Probably a "contribute"
page
> on llvm.org or mentioning them on http://llvm.org/OpenProjects.html
> (if they're not already, I was able to find only mentions to `code
> cleanups`), would help.
> 
Yes, this is very true that we also need to advertise and give better visibility
to how someone who is new can get involved. One of the things I am distributing
at Grace Hopper is small postcard with links and things to do or read if you are
a beginner. We truly need to put something like this on our website. If someone
wants to spearhead this, that would be awesome. I always say when I get time I
will start doing this on our website, but maybe someone will get to it before
me.

So while yes it may not be the total solution, I do think its worthwhile to do
this.

-Tanya


> --
> Davide

I just went through and added a bunch I'd collected.  We seem to be up 
to around 45 with a fairly decent spectrum of areas covered.

Another source of potentially good starter bugs would be the output from 
the various fuzzers.  Many of those tend to be small fixes, but they 
might present a challenge getting reviewed.

Has anyone gotten the time to link to this from somewhere on the website?

On 10/05/2017 06:52 PM, Tanya Lattner via llvm-dev
wrote:
> Anna Zaks, David Blaikie and I have been at Grace Hopper Conference for the
last couple days talking to many people about LLVM and how to get involved in
the project. Its been discussed many times before at LLVM Developer Meetings and
recently on the mailing list about tagging bugs with the “beginner” keyword and
that keyword was recently added to the LLVM Bugzilla. However, there are very
few bugs(12) actually in Bugzilla with this keyword:
https://bugs.llvm.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=beginner&list_id=125621
>
> It would be a huge help and a benefit to the growth of the community if we
could tag more bugs with this keyword. If several members of the community could
tag just 5 bugs with this keyword we could easily increase the number of bugs
suitable for beginners.
>
> I know everyone is very busy but there are so many students and newcomers
that could greatly benefit from this. Please consider helping if you can.
>
> Thank you,
> Tanya
>
>
>
>
>
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On 25/12/2017 18:10, Philip Reames via llvm-dev wrote:
> I just went through and added a bunch I'd collected.  We seem to be up
> to around 45 with a fairly decent spectrum of areas covered.
>
> Another source of potentially good starter bugs would be the output from
> the various fuzzers.  Many of those tend to be small fixes, but they
> might present a challenge getting reviewed.
>
> Has anyone gotten the time to link to this from somewhere on the website?
>
AFAIK not yet.

I was thinking about putting up a `new contributors` page, with some
helpful information including a link to the beginners label. I was
hoping to put something up for review in the next couple of days, if
anybody thinks that would be useful.

Cheers,
Florian


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