[eralps]

In my experience good first issues are mostly hidden. Most of the time, big projects with large communities use that label in issues and at least for me the issues are almost never good first issue.

Projects with at most one or two regular contributors often are easier to get into. They are relatively smaller and there is a higher chance that the open issue is simple but no one had time. But the label is not used in those issues.

I have several contributions that are only 1-5 lines to projects with more than 10K stars. Issues were definitely good first issues but no one had time to work on them, let alone labelling them.

[tashoecraft]

Feel like all decently used open source projects need technical PM contributors to help organize the backlog. Issues can range from no information, to incredibly detailed posts, to what belongs on stackoverflow. It must be exhausting as a maintainer to deal with this.