beginner-friendly label

[iteles]

As a growing open source community, having a beginner-friendly label and clearly noting in this repo what that actually means might be useful to help newer coders feel like they can still contribute. There is often a reluctance to contribute early on in a coder's journey because 'surely it can't be this simple' but having these labels may help combat that.

This is subjective, but clear guidelines should be enough to ensure this works well.
https://opensource.com/life/16/1/6-beginner-open-source

Given this subjective nature, I am not inclined to add any other levels of experience as labels.

[nelsonic]

The decision of what to call our "beginner friendly" label is a tricky one...

in favour of using just the word beginner ...
but think beginner-friendly is more friendly (unsurprisingly) ... 😉

• beginner: http://issuehub.io/?label%5B%5D=beginner&language=javascript
• Some people use an english expression like "Low-Hanging Fruit"
• @kentcdodds suggests using a https://medium.com/@kentcdodds/first-timers-only-78281ea47455 up-for-grabs e.g: https://github.com/formly-js/angular-formly/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=label%3Aup-for-grabs+

Also: @Charlotteis's superb post on "Lowering The Barriers" (to entry):
https://the-pastry-box-project.net/charlotte-spencer/2015-september-16

[varjmes]

i like 'starter' tbh :)

[nelsonic]

@Charlotteis that's a brilliant suggestion! (much simpler and less "patronising" thank you!) 😍 💡
Creating starter label now. ✅

Going with #27ae60 as the color for now:

http://www.colorhexa.com/27ae60

@harrygfox if you have an alternative suggestion for color please inform thanks! 👍

[iteles]

👍 Very happy with this, closing.