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[Newcomer] Suggestions for microprojects

Subject: [Newcomer] Suggestions for microprojects

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4 messages between Jan 17, 2022 and Jan 22, 2022.

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Jaydeep Das· Jan 17, 2022, 07:17 UTC · lore

I want to starting contributing to the git project but can't decide where to start.

I have read the coding-style and contributing guidelines stuff from the website and am eager to start writing code. Is there any small patches that I can make in the codebase that could help me get started with it?

Thanks,
Jaydeep.
Christian Couder· Jan 18, 2022, 08:40 UTC · re: Jaydeep Das · lore

Re: [Newcomer] Suggestions for microprojects

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 5:10 PM Jaydeep Das <jaydeepjd.8914@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I want to starting contributing to the git project but can't decide
> where to start.
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> I have read the coding-style and contributing guidelines stuff from the
> website and am eager to start writing code. Is there any small patches
> that I can make in the codebase that could help me get started with it?

Our https://git.github.io/General-Microproject-Information/ has a "How to find other ideas for microprojects" section that might help a bit.

You can also take look at https://git.github.io/Outreachy-23-Microprojects/ and the micro-projects we previously suggested on https://git.github.io/Historical-SoC-Outreachy/

Best, Christian.

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Johannes Schindelin· Jan 21, 2022, 22:37 UTC · re: Jaydeep Das · lore

Re: [Newcomer] Suggestions for microprojects

Hi Jaydeep,
welcome to the project!
On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, Jaydeep Das wrote:
> I want to starting contributing to the git project but can't decide
> where to start.

In general, I would recommend to pick a project that is of personal interest to you. If you have used Git for more than a week, I am _certain_ that you found things you wish Git did better. That would be the kind of project that I'd think would be ideal.

> I have read the coding-style and contributing guidelines stuff from the
> website and am eager to start writing code. Is there any small patches
> that I can make in the codebase that could help me get started with it?

There are two public bug trackers for the Git project, although I must make clear that neither has been officially accepted by the Git project as authoritative. The official bug tracker is the Git mailing list (which lacks any tooling, of course, to find all reported and still unfixed bugs). The two aforementioned bug trackers can be found here:

	https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues
and
	https://crbug.com/git

If you want some easy project, I would suggest to look at the first bug tracker because some tickets in there are labeled with "good first issue", e.g. this one:

	https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/636

Ciao, Johannes

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