[development] New contributor initiative: user patchnewbie

[brenda]

That's totally awesome -- i have some newbies i'd like to send these patches 
to.

On Friday 19 October 2007 12:26:51 Angie Byron wrote:
> This was something I thought of doing a long time ago but forgot about
> it until just now. :P
>
> I just registered a new user 'patchnewbie', and am going through and
> assigning that user to any issues that are very simple and would make
> great first patches for someone new to core development. See:
>
> http://drupal.org/project/issues?projects=3060&assigned=patchnewbie
>
> If you find issues like this (typos, < 10 liners, etc.), please ping me
> on IRC (webchick) so I can get them added. I can also fork out
> patchnewbie's password to you if you're interested in specifically
> searching for easy issues as well. Let me know!
>
> And please purposely *don't* supply patches for these issues if you
> already know what you're doing -- let's save them for the core hackers
> of tomorrow! :)
>
> Thanks,
> -Angie