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

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.

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.

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