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Re: [Outreachy] Introduction and Interest in Contributing to the Git Community

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Doreen Wanyama <doreenwanyama20@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 11, 2023, 14:48 UTC
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Thank you for this. Let me check them out
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 9:07 AM Naomi Ibe <naomi.ibeh69@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Good morning, I followed this link
> https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22
> We're not expected to pick something too tasking like working on heavy
> code fixes, just pick a project you know you can round up and
> contribute to. A project that doesn't involve plenty of major code
> manipulations. For task submission, you'd need to learn how to
> navigate "git format-patch" and "git send-email" commands(If you read
> up on these two and their applications and you should be fine), or how
> to use GitGitGadget pull requests to send code patches directly to
> this mailing list (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git)
>
> On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 7:32 PM Doreen Wanyama <doreenwanyama20@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Git community,
> >
> > I hope you are all doing well. I am writing to show my interest in
> > working in the project titled move existing tests to a unit testing
> > framework. This is because I have always been intrigued by the work
> > the git community does and hence I am interested in being part of
> > this. I have gone through the links provided about getting started on
> > this. I spent yesterday evening and a better part of today trying to
> > understand the resources. As of now I would like to start working on a
> > microproject since I understand this is the first step. I am finding
> > it difficult though to start. Someone to please help me understand how
> > I should go about this or how I should go about finding my first
> > microproject. Just a brief explanation will help.
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Doreen Wanyama
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