Just to follow-on to my previous email, our labeling convention is described in more detail here:
https://github.com/astropy/astropy/wiki/Issue-labeling-convention Cheers, Tom Thomas Robitaille wrote: > The issue with 'low hanging fruit' is that who is it low-hanging fruit > for? Low hanging fruit for a core dev may be days of work for a > newcomer. Also, 'newcomer' doesn't give a good idea of how long it will > take. > > I would therefore like to second Tom Aldcroft's suggestion of following > something like what we have in astropy: > > - effort-low, effort-medium, and effort-high (=hours, days, long-term) > > - package-novice, package-intermediate, package-expert > > This really covers the range of options. For newcomers that want to do > something quick you can point them to package-novice & effort-low. When > someone new to the project wants to get more involved (or for e.g. > GSoC), you can point them to e.g. package-novice & effort-high. If one > of the core devs is bored and wants to kill some time, they can go to > package-expert & effort-low. > > We've found this very helpful in Astropy and we use it in all related > packages, so I want to put in a strong recommendation for following the > same model here too, and I want to recommend the same for matplotlib and > scipy. > > Cheers, > Tom > > Benjamin Root wrote: >> FWIW, matplotlib calls it "low hanging fruit". I think it is a better >> name than "newcomers". >> >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Aldcroft, Thomas >> <aldcr...@head.cfa.harvard.edu <mailto:aldcr...@head.cfa.harvard.edu>> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Charles R Harris >> <charlesr.har...@gmail.com <mailto:charlesr.har...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Sebastian Berg >> <sebast...@sipsolutions.net <mailto:sebast...@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 >> >> >> >> Chuck >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org <mailto:NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org> >> http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org <mailto:NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org> >> http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org >> http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
