Weed out issues in the Candidate List that have already been worked on.

[Elukoye]

Hi, this is a first-timers-only issue. This means we've worked to make it more legible to folks who either haven't contributed to our codebase before, or even folks who haven't contributed to open source before.

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🤔 What you will need to know.

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📋 Step by Step

• 🙋 Claim this issue: Comment below. If someone else has claimed it, ask if they've opened a pull request already and if they're stuck -- maybe you can help them solve a problem or move it along!

• The aim of this Issue is to weed out issues that have already been fixed in the Candidate for FTO list on the PublicLab website. Below is how to do it:

• Go to the Publiclab website

• Scroll to the Candidates section.

• Go through the list to find issues that have been fixed by reading through the issue thread.

• If fixed, write down the issue number here, as a comment

• 🏁 Done Ask in comments for a review :)

Since no code is being changed, we don't need to create a pull request for this issue. We just need to weed out the fixed issues for the FTO candidate list.

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🤔❓ Questions?

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[Elukoye]

@TildaDares , does this sound interesting for you to work on?

[willow19]

@Elukoye can I try?

Also I do not see any issues under 'candidates' on the Publiclab website. Should I instead look for the issues with label FTO here?

[TildaDares]

@willow19 Yeah you're right. You should look under the issues section.

[Elukoye]

@willow19 ,hi ,yes go ahead 🚀💪🙂👍.
Also the candidates list isn't on the publiclab website , it's here .
Scroll down till you see 👀👀 the Candidates heading ,there are issues there that have already been fixed.
All you have to do is;

• 🕵️‍♀️ look for fixed issues
• 📝 note down their issue's number on this PR.
• ☑️ When done tag @RuthNjeri ,@cesswairimu and @jywarren or any other mentor you know.

[willow19]

@RuthNjeri can you please have a look at the list below. I need help with the 'Need Confirmation' list to be sure they are done. I have given brief comments on all open items in the 3rd portion 'Overview on all open items'

Done

1. 395 - done in PR 424
2. 71 - done in PR
   
3. 4624 - done alongwith this 4594 is done too
4. 108 - done in PR
5. 3865 - done
6. 3861 - done , there are additional tasks which can be made out of this
7. 3549 - done in PR
8. 6391 - has been broken up into FTOs 6834 (closed) and 8587 (closed) - done

Need confirmation

1. 69 - seems done, @jywarren can you please confirm if this can be closed
2. 3513 - not sure if this is done. e.g. PR 9384 has media demo-ing new feature
3. 3460 - seems done, no more work seems pending
4. 3458 - seems done - looks more like guidelines than a task

Overview on all open items

1. 9533 has been split up into 9535 and 9539. If both of those are solved, should we mark 9533 as done?
2. 8731 - not apparent that it has been solved
3. 1757 - not solved
4. 7798 - does not seem solved
5. 1569 - a volunteer wants go ahead
6. 315 - has a linked break-me-up task 450 - if 450 is broken up we'd have converted this candidate into an FTO
7. 310 - many volunteers, but can't see the main guy assigned
8. 1355 - not solved
9. 284 - has an open PR but no activity there
10. 574 - not done
11. 879 - some bugs have been reported for this one. Can some of them be converted to FTOs?
12. 178 - not done
13. 135 - waiting on @jywarren to review PR
14. 4178 - open, a volunteer needs go ahead
15. 4092 - not done
16. 3523 - not done

[RuthNjeri]

Wow! Thanks for going through all of those @willow19. I think I noticed that there is a stale bot that marks an issue as stale and closes issues that do not have any activity for a long time. I have seen that the stale bot has marked some issues as stale in the past.

The Done list you have shared is very useful, I have closed publiclab/community-toolbox#395, publiclab/community-toolbox#108, and #3549

I will revisit the list again tomorrow and see what I can update, thanks again @willow19 ❤️

@willow19 Feel free to pick up another first-timer issue, it seems like this one will be more of a discussion

[willow19]

Thanks @RuthNjeri , sure I'll pick up another issue. Thanks again for the appreciation!