CONTRIBUTING.md: how to progress through issues according to complexity #2760
Description
Overview
As a developer on the team, I want to know how to progress through issues according to its complexity so I know what issue I am eligible to work on next. For this issue, we will update the CONTRIBUTING.md file with information about issue progression based on complexity.
Action Items
- Figure out where in CONTRIBUTING.md section 2.1 Hack for LA Contributor expectations the following information should be added and add the information:
- Progress through issues with increasing complexity in the following order:
- Good first issue
- Good second issue
- Small
- Medium
- Large
- The reasons for this progression are:
- The issues start out as being prescriptive and become less so as you gain more experience by working through increasingly complex issues.
- We are trying to teach you the team methodology through the issues themselves.
- It ensures you understand what we expect and the quality of contributions.
- To see the visual changes for the CONTRIBUTING.md and make sure the changes look good:
- Push the changes to your remote forked repo's topic branch
- Go to your remote forked repo on GitHub
- Switch to your topic branch
- Click on the CONTRIBUTING.md file
- On the upper right, click on "Display the rendered blob" to see what your changes look like. Here is an image of what the "Display the rendered blob" button looks like:
