From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS53758 23.128.96.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA77D1F4B4 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2021 08:05:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1348780AbhDNIEM (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2021 04:04:12 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.71]:64730 "EHLO pb-smtp2.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1349865AbhDNID0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2021 04:03:26 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 132A2B28D2; Wed, 14 Apr 2021 04:03:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=52aRdvtAJj/JrGPzXtq+UX4UvPQ=; b=t1b/xP qq8MNPvB8SWEWDqQ/FA/8gNfADVPzyOkavUb9RspWwhug0sSjEfbWUoN4j8vRLmg gvFMSxm/bSbRu8uXKXm6qDKeSmwJ23npUQp4LCz5lFCr323mLXjzxRKYaD1CiXdm w4ry/iZ/Ed1C79q6DihCkTzHdb2IC7RpQZ+ZA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=H8Fmc0XAUdre+PO2YQMVJijmFza3kjsV SWHSCRYJ1MN5ksHturI/k3zuUBcsiB0NnoqrkAhc0rmlSIId+hoE693Goa2k9Dvh W9aUcdK+dlLsN6bM6oGKWgVqR8SevjFQq7pOo/u1e9ehgTZ3eobbnusqOLenYyjA D1YqrMv1Omc= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 090E4B28D1; Wed, 14 Apr 2021 04:03:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.74.119.39]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 86CFFB28CE; Wed, 14 Apr 2021 04:02:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Bagas Sanjaya Cc: Jonathan Nieder , Raxel Gutierrez , mricon@kernel.org, patchwork@lists.ozlabs.org, Taylor Blau , Emily Shaffer , Git Users Subject: Re: Pain points in Git's patch flow References: Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 01:02:58 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Bagas Sanjaya's message of "Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:22:51 +0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: D4306F14-9CF7-11EB-AEAC-74DE23BA3BAF-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Bagas Sanjaya writes: > There is no lists of "beginner-friendly" issues that can be worked on by > new contributors. They had to search this ML archive for bug report > issues and determine themselves which are beginner-friendly. Yeah, looking for "#leftoverbits" or "low-hanging" on the list archive is often cited as a way, and it does seem easy enough to do. You go to https://lore.kernel.org/git/, type "leftoverbits" or "low-hanging" in the text input and press SEARCH. But that is only half of the story. Anybody can throw random ideas and label them "#leftoverbits" or "low-hanging fruit", but some of these ideas might turn out to be ill-conceived or outright nonsense. Limiting search to the utterances by those with known good taste does help, but as a newbie, you do not know who these people with good taste are. It might help to have a curated list of starter tasks, but I suspect that they tend to get depleted rather quickly---by definition the ones on the list are easy to do and there is nothing to stop an eager newbie from eating all of them in one sitting X-(. So, I dunno. We seem to suffer from the same lack of good starter tasks before each GSoC begins.