Add exercism to up-for-grabs?

[Trevoke]

Up-for-grabs is a website that tracks issues that are approachable for beginners and people new to contributing to open source. I know exercism is doing this, why not add it?

https://github.com/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net#add-your-project

[kytrinyx]

Hi @Trevoke I think it would make sense to add individual language track repositories if and only if:

• there are 2 or more active maintainers
• we have issues that we can label with "good first patch"

There are a lot of tracks where we don't have enough active maintainers, and sometimes people wait a very long time before someone notices their issue or pull request. I'm putting in place much better filters for my exercism notifications, so I am catching more of these, but it's still a problem, and in many languages I can't provide actual feedback on pull requests, so it doesn't really help much that I see an issue. My response will usually be "thank you for this, let me see if I can track down someone to do a code review".

Mozilla has done research about this—the real kind, not the "I poked around on the internet a bit" kind :-) and they discovered that if someone gets a response from maintainers (or people who are highly engaged with the project) within 24 hours of opening an issue or a pull request, then their likelihood of making a second contribution skyrockets.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hsJLv1ieSqtXBzd5YZusY-mB8e1VJzaeOmh8Q4VeMio/edit#slide=id.g4435d357b_20

[kytrinyx]

I forgot to mention that a "response" doesn't mean that the issue gets resolved or that the patch gets merged within those 24 hours.

[Trevoke]

I completely missed that you had replied! My apologies. Tool snafu. Is there some kind of "Exercism health dashboard" where we can find out which tracks need maintainers, etc?

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[kytrinyx]

Is there some kind of "Exercism health dashboard" where we can find out
which tracks need maintainers, etc?

There's no dashboard per se, but we did do a deep dive into the current state of things a couple of weeks ago, where we categorized tracks as maintained, at risk, endangered, and orphaned. exercism/discussions#97

I think that for this we could add all the tracks that are maintained or at risk to up for grabs.

[kytrinyx]

I'm taking a pass through our issue tracker with the goal of making sure that every open issue we have on exercism/exercism.io is actionable.

As this issue stands it isn't actionable. If you would like to move this topic forward, please open a new issue in http://github.com/exercism/discussions

Please:

• summarize the points so far in
• link back to this issue
• include the intended goals for the discussion