Vscode: Add a "Beginner" or "Newbie" label to issues

[arimourao]

In an effort to attract many unexperienced programmers into open source projects, many have been adopting the approach of labeling the issues as "Beginner Friendly" or "Newbie" when appropriated so newcomers can jump into open source dev without much hassle.

More on this:
http://contributor-covenant.org/
https://opensource.com/life/16/1/6-beginner-open-source

[ramya-rao-a]

@arimourao We have the labels help-wanted and effort easy which serve similar purpose.

@Microsoft/vscode Thoughts on including labels for beginner ? Something that is easy effort need not necessarily be the right fit for beginners.

[Tyriar]

I think we should just rename effort easy to something clearer like beginner or newbie. Thoughts @waderyan?

[octref]

For beginner, I'd say it's better to start by writing extensions instead of trying to contribute to the editor.

[Tyriar]

@octref the label would mean beginner in the context of vscode contributions. It's hard to know which issues labeled help wanted are good issues for your first PR without something like this.

[waderyan]

I'm in favor. When this was initially brought up I liked good first bug from React the best. There was some push back and then we landed on effort easy.

[arimourao]

@waderyan good first bug indeed seems great. Something that is quite simple, maybe just a refactor and them people that feels intimidated by the size and complexity of vscode can successfully make a PR and slowly dwelve into deeper problems.

[joaomoreno]

👍 On just renaming effort easy to beginner, like electron.

[Tyriar]

Lots of :+1:s so I renamed it to beginner which is also my favorite. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/labels/beginner