Good First Issue: How to Create Beginner-Friendly Open Source Tasks?

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• Determining the scope of the problem: First, it is necessary to determine the scope of the problem so that beginners can understand and solve it. This may include explaining project structure, codebase, API, documentation, etc.

• Determining the difficulty of the problem: The problem should be challenging but not too difficult so that beginners can successfully solve it. Typically, "good first issue" should be a problem that requires a small amount of code change or documentation improvement.

• Creating a clear task description: The task description should be clear and include the required work, skills, possible solutions, etc. The task description should be concise and avoid technical or domain-specific vocabulary as much as possible.

• Adding appropriate tags: Adding appropriate tags can help beginners find tasks they are interested in. For example, tags such as "good first issue," "beginner-friendly," "documentation," "bug," etc., can be added.

• Providing guidance and support: Finally, providing some guidance and support can help beginners better understand the problem and project. This may include providing code examples, linking to relevant documents or resources, creating branches for the problem, etc.