Part 1 of the newcomer bot is coming up in shape. Part 1 was about adding a reviewer ("first-time-contributor") to a changeset submitted by a first-time contributor and uploading a welcome message as well.

The implementation results are visible in this changeset: https://gerrit.git.wmflabs.org/r/#/c/60/.

Now, we need to decide on the name of the bot and a nice and warm welcome message..

Now, we need to decide on the name of the bot

Same name as in Openstack?: "Welcome, new contributor!"

and a nice and warm welcome message..

I dumped an initial version in T73357#2629661 which definitely needs rework.

(Note: I amended what I usually post on test patches to also manage our Gerrit test instance. Example: My comment in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/429566/ )

@Aklapper From the links / info you've shared above, this is what I've come up with:

Message:

Hello! Thank you for making your first contribution to Wikimedia! :) To learn how to get your code changes reviewed faster and more likely to get accepted, read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Code_review/Getting_reviews. To explore more newcomer friendly projects, read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers. We look forward to your next patch submission in Gerrit!

Bot-name:

Welcome, new contributor!

Thanks! Sounds good to me, let's start with that? (We could add gazillions of things of course to cover more corner cases, but let's start simple.)

I'll boldly move this to May 2018.