Re: bugzilla keyword for beginner issues to work on

Jonathan Wakely via Gdb
2025-09-30T09:05:36Z

On Tue, 30 Sept 2025 at 09:39, Dhruv Chawla via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
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> On 30/09/25 13:19, Sam James via Gcc wrote:
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> > Andrew Pinski <andrew.pinski@oss.qualcomm.com> writes:
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> >> 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.
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> > 'good-first-*' is what people tend to search for in other
> > projects. Having it aligned (and optimising for new contributors) makes
> > sense, I think.
> >
> >> [...]
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> > sam
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> +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.