Re: How to start contributing

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 20, 2018, 06:47 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD3CDwu7OVgVmEgP2Se_bxYszcze68_bXT7=wgZaxncpzg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJKt3eP+BZkfK_yn3KYWMgmJB8_18UFr5eizmdGOY_4vM5=AYA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 2:51 PM Πλάτων Κιορπελίδης <trickygitninja@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> I’m a computer science student and I’m interested in contributing to git.
> I’ve read the GSoC git page with the ideas and micro-projects as I’m
> interested in participating next summer.
> I’ve also read the Documentation at the GitHub mirror.
> I’ve never worked on such large project and I don’t know where to start from.
> I’ve picked this microproject from the GSoC page:
>
> Make “git tag –contains <id>” less chatty if <id> is invalid
> “git tag – contains <id>” prints the whole help text if <id> is
> invalid. It should only show the error message instead.
> Thread: https://public-inbox.org/git/20160118215433.GB24136@sigill.intra.peff.net/
>
> This bug is solved using the 3rd option, but I suspect that it’s still
> here because the 2nd option is preferred.

I think it should probably have been removed from the micro-project list. I am CC'ing Peff as he wrote the email listing the different options to solve the original issue and may think otherwise.

> How should I tackle this?

It's a good first step to ask first on the list as you did if it is a good micro-project or not. Unfortunately in this case I think you might want to try to find another micro-project.

Thanks, Christian.