Re: bugzilla keyword for beginner issues to work on

Luis via Gdb
2025-09-30T06:26:33Z

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?