• Andrei Alexandrescu (10/10) Oct 13 2016 Hello, I've added the "bootcamp" keyword to http://issues.dlang.org to
• jmh530 (4/14) Oct 13 2016 Why not introduce a Difficulty indicator to accompany Importance?
• Andrei Alexandrescu (2/23) Oct 13 2016 Simple has its advantages.
• Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d (11/15) Oct 13 2016 Also, rating bugs for difficulty can be pretty hard. It's not always obv...

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

Hello, I've added the "bootcamp" keyword to http://issues.dlang.org to 
indicate issues that are eligible by "n00bs", i.e. new members of the 
Foundation who are fixing some bugs while gaining fluency with the 
language and toolchain.

A "bootcamp" bug should be simple but not too simple. The sweet spot is 
a bug that has a relatively small surface but of which fixing offers a 
good learning experience.

Please join me with the tagging!


Thanks,

Andrei

jmh530 <john.michael.hall gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 20:06:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 Hello, I've added the "bootcamp" keyword to 
 http://issues.dlang.org to indicate issues that are eligible by 
 "n00bs", i.e. new members of the Foundation who are fixing some 
 bugs while gaining fluency with the language and toolchain.

 A "bootcamp" bug should be simple but not too simple. The sweet 
 spot is a bug that has a relatively small surface but of which 
 fixing offers a good learning experience.

 Please join me with the tagging!


 Thanks,

 Andrei

Why not introduce a Difficulty indicator to accompany Importance? 
Bootcamp could be like the equivalent of a 2 out of 5.

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

jmh530 <john.michael.hall gmail.com> wrote:
 On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 20:06:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
 wrote:
 Hello, I've added the "bootcamp" keyword to 
 http://issues.dlang.org to indicate issues that are eligible by 
 "n00bs", i.e. new members of the Foundation who are fixing some 
 bugs while gaining fluency with the language and toolchain.
 
 A "bootcamp" bug should be simple but not too simple. The sweet 
 spot is a bug that has a relatively small surface but of which 
 fixing offers a good learning experience.
 
 Please join me with the tagging!
 
 
 Thanks,
 
 Andrei

 
 Why not introduce a Difficulty indicator to accompany Importance? 
 Bootcamp could be like the equivalent of a 2 out of 5.
 

Simple has its advantages.

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:

On Thursday, October 13, 2016 20:43:42 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d 
wrote:
 jmh530 <john.michael.hall gmail.com> wrote:
 Why not introduce a Difficulty indicator to accompany Importance?
 Bootcamp could be like the equivalent of a 2 out of 5.

 Simple has its advantages.

Also, rating bugs for difficulty can be pretty hard. It's not always obvious
how difficult it's going to be and even determining whether it's on the easy
end of the scale is hard without gradating it further.

And I don't think that we really want to be taking the time to rate every
bug anyway. There are plenty of other things to do that would be more
useful. It's just that rating at least some bugs as good for beginners would
be useful for helping folks get started. So, spending some time on this is
valuable, but going to town on it would be counter-productive.

- Jonathan M Davis