Labeling of Issues for New Contributors and GitHub Conventions

[jzf2101]

Having just run a 4-hour mini sprint, I have noticed that GitHub uses the labels help wanted and good first issue in a new feature which searches for issues for new contributors. See screenshot below:

What do we think about switching our new contributor type labels to this convention for improved search engine optimization?

I think making the switch would be preferred since we want to make it clear which issues are appropriate for new contributors. At the same time, I understand this would change our labeling conventions by team and that this should be considered on a repo-by-repo basis.

[blink1073]

+1 for changing.

[Carreau]

+1 to have something standard, if it's what GitHub is promoting, even greater.

I'm going to assume "help wanted" issue might be tougher than "good first issue".

[willingc]

+1 to using both. We're already using "help wanted" on all the jupyterhub repos. Although it's difficult to determine what makes a "good first issue" in my experience, it's worth giving that a shot too.

[jzf2101]

Related, I made a list of major repos with new contributor type issues on the PyCon Canada sprint wiki page:

https://github.com/pyconca/2017-wiki/wiki/Sprints#project-jupyter

[damianavila]

+1 on the change.

[takluyver]

+1 to using Github's standard labels for these things

[jasongrout]

+1 for using standard GitHub labeling.

[jhamrick]

+1 for standard labeling too.

[gnestor]

+1

[fperez]

+1, this is the kind of standardization that wins by more projects adopting. Given we have a crazy number of orgs/projects, we can benefit from this while simultaneously helping it become adopted. Thanks @jzf2101!

[jzf2101]

I'm assuming we're of agreement and will start making appropriate proposed changes to the repos on the issues.