Help improve Gemini CLI by contributing to "help wanted" issues

[bdmorgan]

We've been making a concerted effort to go through and triage the large number of open issues. There's still work to be done but, if you're interested in contributing to Gemini CLI, I wanted to provide very specific instructions that will allow you to make meaningful contributions to the project.

A couple of weeks back, I posted about the upcoming requirement that all pull requests be associated with an issue. We will start enforcing that on Monday January 26 but here's a little bit more detail as to why we're doing that. The second requirement is that we are also going to prioritize all pull requests associated with an issue that has been marked by a maintainer as help wanted.

As I write this, there are 132 open help wanted issues, which includes a mix of features and bugs. Each one has an assigned priority label (i.e. priority/p1, priority/p2, etc.) P1 is a higher priority than P2, P2 is a higher priority than P3, etc.

We encourage the community to focus contributions on issues labeled as help wanted. In return, we are going to prioritize collaborating with you on those PRs in order to get them reviewed, hopefully approved, and into the product.

Thanks for all of the feedback and contributions to date!

[alih552]

thank you @bdmorgan for making things clear. Great work is being done for this tool. I love it

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[aniruddhaadak80]

From my point of view, this policy makes sense only if issue triage stays fast enough that contributors can actually act on it. Help wanted works well as a prioritization signal because it reduces ambiguity, but it also creates an implicit promise that those paths are reviewable in a reasonable window. The policy is strongest when the labeling discipline and reviewer throughput stay aligned with that promise.

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