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Why "good first issues" are usually not good first issues

Hi! I'm Aman Gupta Home Blog 29 Jul, 2025 Contributing to open-source projects is a goal of many programmers. Issues tagged with "good-first-issue" is one way to find something to work on. When newcomers (people who never contributed to the project) browse issues in a repo, GitHub will hit them with a banner "If you're ready to tackle some open issues, we've collected some good first issues for you.", which will take you to an issues page filtered with the label good-first-issue. Think of this p...

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