Commit 94b8a0d7 authored by Marcia Ramos's avatar Marcia Ramos

Merge branch 'tkuah-accepting-merge-request-label' into 'master'

Update Issue Workflow docs for ~"Accepting merge requests" label

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!35573
parents 81be8aed 257dd29b
...@@ -312,22 +312,13 @@ We want to avoid a situation when a contributor picks an ...@@ -312,22 +312,13 @@ We want to avoid a situation when a contributor picks an
because we realize that it does not fit our vision, or we want to solve it in a because we realize that it does not fit our vision, or we want to solve it in a
different way. different way.
We add the ~"Accepting merge requests" label to: We automatically add the ~"Accepting merge requests" label to issues
that match the [triage policy](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/quality/triage-operations/#accepting-merge-requests).
- Low priority ~bug issues (i.e. we do not add it to the bugs that we want to
solve in the ~"Next Patch Release") We recommend people that have never contributed to any open source project to
- Small ~feature look for issues labeled `~"Accepting merge requests"` with a [weight of 1](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues?state=opened&label_name[]=Accepting+merge+requests&assignee_id=None&sort=weight&weight=1).
- Small ~"technical debt" issues More experienced contributors are very welcome to tackle
[any of them](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues?state=opened&label_name[]=Accepting+merge+requests&assignee_id=None).
After adding the ~"Accepting merge requests" label, we try to estimate the
[weight](#issue-weight) of the issue. We use issue weight to let contributors
know how difficult the issue is. Additionally:
- We advertise [`Accepting merge requests` issues with weight < 5](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues?state=opened&label_name[]=Accepting+merge+requests&assignee_id=None&sort=weight)
as suitable for people that have never contributed to GitLab before on the
[Up For Grabs campaign](https://up-for-grabs.net/#/)
- We encourage people that have never contributed to any open source project to
look for [`Accepting merge requests` issues with a weight of 1](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues?state=opened&label_name[]=Accepting+merge+requests&assignee_id=None&sort=weight&weight=1)
If you've decided that you would like to work on an issue, please @-mention If you've decided that you would like to work on an issue, please @-mention
the [appropriate product manager](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/#who-to-talk-to-for-what) the [appropriate product manager](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/#who-to-talk-to-for-what)
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