bugzilla keyword for beginner issues to work on

Andrew Pinski via Gdb
2025-09-29T20:08:59Z

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