If you are a new contributor to research software #rseng or #HPC we have put together a fully automated "good first issues" board on http://hpc.social! https://hpc.social/good-first-issues/. We add repos from the #RSEPedia, and if you are a maintainer feel free to add your repository! 🤓

oh it’s not ready for mass sharing yet - the UI is awful! But indeed if someone wants to jump in and improve before I have the time… 🙌

When the UI is cleaned up it will be a really nice resource! It finds new repos from the #RSEPedia and looks for the “good first issue” tag.

Looking to contribute to Julia, SciPy, Pandas, Spack, or to dozens of other #SciComp, #RSEng, or #HPC projects from the #RSEpedia or even to https://hpc.social itself to improve your skills and help with these projects but don’t know where to start? Check out the work-in-progress
https://hpc.social/good-first-issues/ by @vsoch and comment on the UI design or the project listings if you have ideas! If you’re a maintainer on a project, ask us about how to get your #GoodFirstIssue listed!

@AlanSill okay clean and archive is underway! And I'm using the RESTFul endpoint of the #RSEPedia to get repository metadata and then look for GitHub issues with the "good first issue" label - and wow I'm finding a ton!

Methinks we will need to revamp the good-first-issues UI to be a little more searchable (akin to our hpc.social jobs board). I likely won't get to it tonight, but it's a WIP!

@AlanSill one question for the #RSEPedia - if we use it for getting issues, the first thing I'll add is a regular action that checks for 404s and similar. Should the default be to remove repositories that are no longer present, or archive the (likely not useful) metadata somewhere?