On the flip side of this thread, some projects have started to adopt specific tagging in their issue systems for folks looking to get started as contributors. I really like this as it's clear communication to both new contributors and to existing contributors that the issue in question is an on-ramp for the project.

Here's Neovim's "entry-level" label, for example:

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...