[GRASS-dev] Helping beginners and GSoC students find simple problems to tackle

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Dear all,

we suggest specific tickets to GSoC often tailored to a specific GSoC idea they are interested in. However, in general it is hard to find a right topic for a person who wants to start contributing to GRASS GIS (as opposed to writing additional modules with some specific functionality).

I suggest introducing some special keyword (tag) to Trac tickets which would mark the ticket as suitable/recommended for contributors-beginners.

Tag “beginners” seems to refer to problems affecting the beginners (the users). Tag “simple” may not be good either, because how simple it is quite relative. Perhaps there can be a special property to show estimated complexity of solving the ticket.

Best,

Vaclav

PS: Currently, the following queries give many tickets which might be suitable for contributors-beginners:

Trivial:

https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/query?priority=trivial&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&max=500&col=id&col=summary&col=priority&col=status&col=owner&col=type&col=milestone&order=priority

Minor:

https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/query?priority=minor&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&max=500&col=id&col=summary&col=priority&col=status&col=type&col=owner&col=milestone&order=priority

Normal enhancement:

https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/query?priority=normal&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&type=enhancement&max=500&col=id&col=summary&col=priority&col=status&col=type&col=owner&col=milestone&order=priority