[llvm-dev] Beginner Bugs - Need help tagging

[Davide Italiano via llvm-dev]

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.

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Davide