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by mrr54 2336 days ago
It definitely seems like a lot of the time, the people making these lists could just resolve the issues with not a lot more effort than writing all this 'good first issue' documentation.

It's one thing to throw a tag 'good-for-beginners' on a bunch of issues, but the amount of effort going into some of these 'good first issue' things is astonishing compared to how tiny the issues are in the first place.