New bug tags from UDS for helping small contributors easily find things they can work on

[David Siegel]

Scott Ritchie wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> At a UDS community session we discussed the idea of creating bug tags 
> designed to help small contributors find bugs that they can help with. 
> A good example of this is the needs-artwork tag: once it's widely used, 
> all a volunteer artist needs to do is find this link to scour Launchpad 
> for anything that needs art: 
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=needs-artwork
>
> I blogged about this here: http://yokozar.org/blog/archives/89
>
> I've added the tags (and quick search links) to the Bug Tags page on the 
> wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Tags
>
> However, at the moment, very few bugs are actually using these tags.  It 
> would be really great if we could get lots of community help in Karmic 
> integrating extra contributions like this, so please help by tagging 
> some bugs :)
>
> Thanks,
> Scott Ritchie
>
>   
Most paper cuts are fixable by new contributors. We plan to do a session 
at Ubuntu Developer Week to demonstrate how to fix these tiny bugs:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.bug_supervisor=&field.bug_commenter=&field.subscriber=&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used=&field.has_cve.used=&field.tag=&field.tags_combinator=ANY

David