Re: bugzilla keyword for beginner issues to work on

Jonathan Wakely via Gdb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel,gmane.comp.gcc.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha
Message-ID <CAH6eHdTeGcY=mwUBh_TYeJLAhEY1ix7mCcgGVK+G5b5MA8-1Bw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 30 Sept 2025 at 09:39, Dhruv Chawla via Gcc <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 30/09/25 13:19, Sam James via Gcc wrote:
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> >
> > Andrew Pinski <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > 'good-first-*' is what people tend to search for in other
> > projects. Having it aligned (and optimising for new contributors) makes
> > sense, I think.
> >
> >> [...]
> >
> > sam
>
> +1 to this. I feel like "beginner-improvement" and "easyhack" are harder to
> parse than "good-first-bug" or "good-first-issue" (which LLVM uses FWIW), and
> it is not immediately obvious to me what either of them mean.

Yeah, I really don't care that somebody might decide to work on a
"good first issue" as their second or third issue. It would still a
good first one for somebody else, it just happens to be that person's
second or third.

"beginner-improvement" is too long, and I had the same question as
Florian about who or what is being improved.
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