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Discussion on: The “good first issue” myth

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Dzhavat Ushev

Thanks for making the effort to accommodate first-time contributors.

I wrote this post mostly because I remembered how it was when I first started contributing to open source. I would open the Issues page on some repo and look for the good first issue label. Often times the results were either issues that sounded too complicated or there were already related PRs.

We sometimes talk about how we want more people to get involved but don't really provide guidance and/or tasks to get them started.