bugzilla keyword for beginner issues to work on

[Dhruv Chawla]

On 30/09/25 13:19, Sam James via Gcc wrote:
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> Andrew Pinski <andrew.pinski@oss.qualcomm.com> writes:
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>> Hi all,
>>    As talked about during the GNU tools cauldron, the gdb and gcc
>> keywords usage here are different but folks mentioned it would be a
>> good idea to have the same between the 2 bugzilla instances. Right now
>> gcc is easyhack while gdb uses good-first-bug. Both have issues with
>> the naming of each.
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> 'good-first-*' is what people tend to search for in other
> projects. Having it aligned (and optimising for new contributors) makes
> sense, I think.
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> sam

+1 to this. I feel like "beginner-improvement" and "easyhack" are harder to
parse than "good-first-bug" or "good-first-issue" (which LLVM uses FWIW), and
it is not immediately obvious to me what either of them mean.

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Regards,
Dhruv