Problem/Motivation

The novice link on the contributor links block in people's dashboard does not filter down to good novice issues enough.

screenshot showing block and novice link

Link goes to:
https://drupal.org/project/issues/search?status[0]=1&status[1]=8&status[...
which is:
screenshot of the advanced search

Proposed resolution

Improve the view to make it more likely that new contributors will find Novice issues that are good for them to work on.

Use a machine to follow some of the advice written on Selecting novice tasks for new contributors.

Ideas for criteria

  • filter for issues not too old
  • not too recently commented on
  • not too many comments
  • ?

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

No.

API changes

No.

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Comments

yesct’s picture

yesct commented
Parent issue: #2013222: Add "Issue tasks" to project issues and correlate tasks with handbook documentation »

Related to https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/people-want-help-they-dont-know-wh...

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drumm
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A quickly doable change would be changing the link to the existing advanced search page with any improved filters selected. I'm not sure if that will help too much, but maybe there is something to do. And of course, manually un-tagging issues which aren't actually novice is time consuming, but doable today.

This may require updates to the SearchAPI index. The indexed fields are in code at http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupalorg/tree/features/drupalorg_searchapi_i.... It looks like we are okay for now, the comment count, created, and changed are all indexed.

It would be best to update the exposed filters for advanced search so anyone can drill down into these types of criteria without needing a Drupal.org change. But, that will make the form larger and more cumbersome. Maybe there is a good module or strategy to have "even more advanced filters" in the UI without being a wall of form elements.

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xjm
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Parent issue: » #2173425: [META] Merge DrupalMentoring.org features into Drupal.org
xjm’s picture

xjm
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commented
Related issues: +#2282517: Update/Redo Contributor Links block for Dashboard page
mgifford’s picture

mgifford
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Primary language English
commented

Can we make the Novice Issues link stand out, especially for novice users?

And ya, would be totally good if it actually went somewhere like Cathy described.

It's also worth noting that the Contributor Links are essentially Core Contributor Links - maybe this block should be renamed. Core isn't the only way to get involved....

@drumm - any ETA on that link change to the advanced search page improved filters selected? How close can you get to what Cathy is asking for without code changes based on what is being indexed now?

jackbravo’s picture

jackbravo commented
Related issues: +#2572061: Add a dismissable notification when somebody goes to a core issue while in RC

Today Cathy mentioned that finding issues is not the only problem right now. Since we are on release cycle phase contributors need to know which issues are not suitable to be committed or fixed in this phase. So we added this issue that may be related to this one:

https://www.drupal.org/node/2572061