Encourage "help wanted"

[danmoseley]

Like many repos we used "up for grabs" but GitHub now has UI that lights up if you use "help wanted", for example

They also specially recognize "good first issue" by listing them on a page like this -- and not, for example "easy": https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/contribute

There's not really an issue here, but given your goals I wonder whether you might want to update docs/tooling to recommend repos change to "help wanted". Or alternatively (?) perhaps there's some way to request that GitHub recognize "up for grabs" as an alternative?

Since it's a little opaque what labels Github understands specially (although the above are default ones) perhaps someone can correct me if my observations are wrong.

[ritwik12]

@danmoseley Thanks for pointing this out. AFAIK, we are not promoting or encouraging up-for-grabs. it is in the docs just for the sake of an example. We are good with any such label and we encourage "good first issue" and other labels too.

I personally use "good first issue" in my repos for that. If you feel, Github is encouraging few labels over others. Please feel free to add that in our Docs and we will be happy to review that.

[junjasminenie]

Hello! Can I work on this please! @danmoseley

[danmoseley]

FWIW, the .NET product repos changed to "help wanted" and "good first issue" since Github seems to be making it canonical as demonstrated above and in their docs

However, since folks probably search for other variations like "easy" or "up for grabs" we added those to the label descriptions:

which hopefully helps discoverability.

[danmoseley]

cc @mairaw

[junjasminenie]

@danmoseley Thank you for your response. I took inspiration from this issue and was wondering if I can implement a feature on Up For Grabs that will allow contributors to see the number of unclaimed issues that no one is working on yet.

[danmoseley]

@junjasminenie I am not a maintainer of this repo. Perhaps @ritwik12 can answer.