i notice the repo doesn’t have a “good starter issue” label or something to that affect

Hello, thanks for asking! We love contributions and are happy to help guide them along 🙂 We have that label here: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22. Do any of those look interesting? If so, we can refresh the ticket

thanks eric, i missed it the first time around 🙂 will look through these

Thanks for asking @hallowed-plastic-91664! We love to help folks get started with contributing to the project. Feel free to ask for a hand if needed.

I always forget that repos have that "good first issue" - my first issue was creating a plugin. Definitely not a "good first issue" 🙂

You jumped right into the deep end, and were kind enough to document the experience so that other folks can jump right into the deep end too. Thank you!

FYI @fast-nail-55400 and I just thought of a really helpful and hopefully interesting, fairly approachable first issue: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/14451. It'll help out rule authors a lot, and doesn't require deep Pants knowledge cc @fresh-cat-90827 if you're looking for any more good-first-issue tickets