Propose renaming "new contributor" label to "good first issue"
devinivy opened this issue · comments
In the guidelines doc the new contributor label is described as such,
tasks that are sufficiently small and easy for new contributors to complete, and which collaborators don't mind assisting new contributors in completing.
This seems to be very much in line with a label officially recognized by github named good first issue. Issues with this label are better surfaced to potential new contributors (see here). Same goes for help wanted, which we already have. I propose we simply rename new contributor to good first issue in order to take advantage of github's preference for this label name, and in an effort to be just a little more standard. If we would like to do this and @Marsup will have it, I would be open to providing a PR to hil to help maintainers automate the update.
Good call @devinivy!
Sure. Go ahead and change them...
@devinivy since it's a rename, hil will create a new label and not rename the old one, you'll have to delete it manually, hope it's ok.