Re: bugzilla keyword for beginner issues to work on

> Am 30.09.2025 um 08:27 schrieb Luis via Gcc <[email protected]>:
> 
> On 29/09/2025 21:07, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>   As talked about during the GNU tools cauldron, the gdb and gcc
>> keywords usage here are different but folks mentioned it would be a
>> good idea to have the same between the 2 bugzilla instances. Right now
>> gcc is easyhack while gdb uses good-first-bug. Both have issues with
>> the naming of each.
>> So I was thinking of a good name and came up with beginner-improvement .
>> I know this is all bikeshedding but in this case since the 2 projects
>> right now use different naming we have a good chance to come up with a
>> good name in the first place.
>> beginner-improvement has a few advantages, first it is about being a
>> beginner to the project. How long someone can be a beginner is up to
>> them; it does not need to be their first issue solving. And the idea
>> of an issue being easy is also left behind; some of them might not
>> actually be "easy" but a beginner can still solve it.
>> Plus in many cases it is not exactly a bug but rather than an
>> improvement that needs to be done so this new name removes that side
>> of things.
>> So in summary, beginner-improvement is my proposal for the new keyword.
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew Pinski
> 
> Personally I'm fine with beginner-improvement. Would we need to go hunting for the old names to do the mass updates?

I think it’s possible to rename keywords?

Richard