Re: bugzilla keyword for beginner issues to work on

Guinevere Larsen via Gdb
2025-09-30T11:26:05Z

On 9/30/25 6:04 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sept 2025 at 09:39, Dhruv Chawla via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>> On 30/09/25 13:19, Sam James via Gcc wrote:
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>>> Andrew Pinski <andrew.pinski@oss.qualcomm.com> 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.
>
I am not a fan of easy-hack, and I find good-first-bug mentally longer
because it is one more word (even if fewer characters). However, I don't
really mind how wordy it is because bugzilla can autofill the options
based on the partial typing, so I don't care about wordiness

I like beginner-improvement and I'm fine with good-first-bug. If
would-be contributors are already searching for one, we should
definitely standardize on the one that is already searched (or at least
match the beginning). I'll try to see if I can look up what kernel, QEMU
and other systems engineering projects use.

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Cheers,
Guinevere Larsen
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