Besides looking at the open issues, perhaps you can also learn from jumping into pull requests since it shows how other people translated issues into code. This pull request, for example, seems to be 95% done.
The significant improvements we did in the test area in 0.17 should make it easier to contribute (safety net). The issue backlog, however, needs improvements as to labels etc., but I think there should be issues there to pick (and not the issue you mentioned).
We will do some backlog cleanup to make it easier to navigate.
@moorereason thanks for the ideas. The labels are very clear, also the labels exp-beginner, exp-intermediate and exp-expert. I like that! I don’t know whether it is a new usage but this is encouraging for some people like me
I have started to dive into issues and how they have been managed (pulls and so on).
@bep thanks for the ideas. The labels are well set and are nice to enter the hugo world. Actually I looked at the issue 1313 and how you came back from ERROR to WARN. I will go on on Github!