move issues for new contributors higher up on the page

it seems to pair well with the contributor incubator part, and it was somewhat hard to notice where it used to be.

Author: ianhi

doc/devel/contributing.rst

@@ -25,6 +25,19 @@ about the code, what makes for good documentation or a blog post, how to get inv
 in community work, or get "pre-review" on your PR.
 
 
+.. _new_contributors:
+
+Issues for New Contributors
+---------------------------
+
+New contributors should look for the following tags when looking for issues.
+We strongly recommend that new contributors tackle issues labeled
+`good first issue <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/labels/good%20first%20issue>`_
+as they are easy, well documented issues, that do not require an understanding of
+the different submodules of Matplotlib.
+This helps the contributor become familiar with the contribution
+workflow, and for the core devs to become acquainted with the contributor.
+
 .. _submitting-a-bug-report:
 
 Submitting a bug report
@@ -218,20 +231,6 @@ tools:
 
 
 
-.. _new_contributors:
-
-Issues for New Contributors
----------------------------
-
-New contributors should look for the following tags when looking for issues.
-We strongly recommend that new contributors tackle issues labeled
-`good first issue <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/labels/good%20first%20issue>`_
-as they are easy, well documented issues, that do not require an understanding of
-the different submodules of Matplotlib.
-This helps the contributor become familiar with the contribution
-workflow, and for the core devs to become acquainted with the contributor;
-besides which, we frequently underestimate how easy an issue is to solve!
-
 
 .. _contributing_documentation: