From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tagging of bugs to induct new developers Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:37:57 -0400 Message-ID: <6a399187ju.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87mx7aol5a.fsf@Womble.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332398293 13923 80.91.229.3 (22 Mar 2012 06:38:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:38:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ben Sturmfels Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 22 07:38:13 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SAbey-0003Xh-QS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:38:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35565 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAbex-0007zC-TZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:38:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59784) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAbes-0007yE-BS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:38:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAbeq-0003yG-Nv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:38:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:56226) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAbeq-0003yA-Kj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:38:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAben-0002eQ-NB; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:37:57 -0400 X-Spook: ANZUS e-bomb BATF NASA COSCO militia SRI NSA X-Ran: <,@c=p[vG731)F($$4_{V$(ejq]FT,O}>v+zbsy9Vc.yv=5yNQe;L3h,VTxFT8~>$'=4P1 X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87mx7aol5a.fsf@Womble.home> (Ben Sturmfels's message of "Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:25:21 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149160 Archived-At: Ben Sturmfels wrote: > I see that some projects specifically tag easy bugs that may be > appropriate for inducting new developers. For Gnome they use the tag > "gnome-love". Is there a similar approach for Emacs? There hasn't been to date. I just now created a new debbugs tag "easy" that people can use for this purpose if they want to. Of course, nothing is tagged "easy" right now. I'm not sure how much use it will get though. The "help" tag has never been used. More people fixing Emacs bugs would be very welcome. If there's something you are particularly interested in, try a subject search to see if there are any bugs in that area. Or browse a range of bug numbers and see if something catches your eye. Old bugs are probably not easy to fix, so maybe start from the recent end. Bugs with severity "minor" may be easier to fix (but also may be hard to fix and just not important). There's always all the bugs with "doc" in the subject.