Beginner-Friendly Issues

Probably the hardest problem for newcomers who are trying to contribute to open-source projects is to find a beginner-friendly issue they are able to understand and resolve. One way to search for them is to use the issue labels on GitHub.

This is a list of common beginner-friendly labels used by some Ruby projects and organizations to indicate issues appropriate for an open-source newcomer.

beginner

is:open label:beginner

• JRuby
  an implementation of Ruby on the JVM http://www.jruby.org
• Rails ERD
  Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams for Rails applications
• Planner
  A tool to help manage codebar.io members and events.
• Flatcar
  Rails development environment manager
• speakerinnen_liste
  International Women Speaker Directory www.speakerinnen.org

beginner friendly

is:open label:"beginner friendly"

• Girl Develop It
  This is the official repository for the Girl Develop It website. http://girldevelopit.com
• Vox Pupuli
  Modules and tooling maintained by and for the Puppet community

beginner-friendly

is:open label:"beginner-friendly"

• Rails Girls Summer of Code Teams
  Teams management and activity https://teams.railsgirlssummerofcode.org
• os4w.org
  A resource for connecting women in technology with friendly and welcoming open source projects.

easy

is:open label:easy

• Wiki Ed Dashboard
  Wiki Education Foundation's Wikipedia course dashboard system https://dashboard.wikiedu.org
• Test My Code server
  Test My Code exercise server used by e.g. http://mooc.fi/
• MapKnitter 2
  Upload your own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. http://mapknitter.org
• ThirtyOne
  An application that can be used to collect and maintain an inventory of goods and manage the distribution of those goods to those in need.

easy fix

is:open label:"easy fix"

• OpenAustralia Foundation
  Transforming democracy in Australia with wonderful, free civic projects.
• MarkUs
  Application for the submission and grading of student programming assignments.

low hanging fruit

is:open label:"low hanging fruit

• RuboCop
  A Ruby static code analyzer, based on the community Ruby style guide.
• Logstash
  Transport and process your logs, events, or other data https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash
• OpenFarm
  A free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge.

low-hanging-fruit

is:open label:"low-hanging-fruit"

• Neo4jRB
  Better living through Neo4j and Ruby.
• Sneakers
  A fast background processing framework for Ruby and RabbitMQ http://sneakers.io
• Orientation
  The goal of Orientation was to make a single point of entry for any internal question someone might have about our organization

newcomers

is:open label:newcomers

• Prezento
  Collaborative code metrics. http://mezuro.org

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If anything is missing please open a pull request. Thanks!