[legobmw99]

There’s an additional difficulty here which is the actually good first issues tend to be completed early in their existence, so the long-term steady state is issues that are much more difficult for some reason or another (even if they aren’t stale)

[getwiththeprog]

Often I will leave low-impact work undone, so that someone new can attend to it. The feeling of "I actually did something" is so important for new contibutors.