Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> However, I'm not sure how productive the [E]asy marker can really be.
> Items end up on the TODO generally because a) we couldn't settle on a
> way forward, or b) nobody was keen to do it right away. There just
> aren't many genuinely "easy" items in there, easy ones usually get
> done right away.
Yeah, that is a real problem for new would-be contributors --- there
simply isn't that much low-hanging fruit waiting for them, unless
they focus on areas that no one else has taken much interest in;
and even then there are few really small tasks.
regards, tom lane