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How to find places where I can contribute?

Subject: How to find places where I can contribute?

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5 messages between Feb 19, 2023 and Feb 20, 2023.

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Divyanshu Agrawal· Feb 19, 2023, 14:13 UTC · lore

Hi! I want to contribute to the Git project. However, I'm not sure what I can contribute to.

I'm used to the GitHub workflow, where I would look at the "Issues" section of a GitHub repository, and try to tackle bugs / features I think I will be able to work on.

1. What is the equivalent for the Git project? How can I find issues/features
that I can work on?
2. Is there a way I can find bugs/issues that are likely easy for a new
contributor to pick up? Similar to a "good-first-issue" label on GitHub?

Based on your responses, I can also update the documentation, so that others like me can get started quickly!

Thanks!
Divyanshu Agrawal
Christian Couder· Feb 20, 2023, 09:59 UTC · re: Divyanshu Agrawal · lore

Re: How to find places where I can contribute?

Hi,
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 3:39 PM Divyanshu Agrawal <agrawal-d@outlook.com> wrote:
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> Hi!
> I want to contribute to the Git project. However, I'm not sure what I can
> contribute to.
>
> I'm used to the GitHub workflow, where I would look at the "Issues" section of
> a GitHub repository, and try to tackle bugs / features I think I will be able
> to work on.

Git was started before GitHub (and many such platforms) existed, and we still use a mostly email based workflow, even if we do use GitHub and other platforms for some things like code hosting and CI.

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> 1. What is the equivalent for the Git project? How can I find issues/features
> that I can work on?
>
> 2. Is there a way I can find bugs/issues that are likely easy for a new
> contributor to pick up? Similar to a "good-first-issue" label on GitHub?
We have the following documentation:
https://git.github.io/General-Microproject-Information/
There is also the microproject idea page from last year's GSoC:
https://git.github.io/SoC-2022-Microprojects/

We haven't updated it for this year yet, so some ideas might be outdated. It might be a good idea anyway to discuss a bit your micro-project idea on the list when you have found one before starting to work on it.

> Based on your responses, I can also update the documentation, so that others
> like me can get started quickly!

We do use GitHub (at https://github.com/git/git.github.io/) for our Developer Pages (at https://git.github.io/) where we have a lot of useful docs for developers.

We also use GitHub (at https://github.com/git/git-scm.com) for our main web site at https://git-scm.com/.

If you want to contribute as part of the Google Summer of Code 2023, it's best to say so and to add "[GSoC]" at the start of your email subjects.

Thanks and welcome to the Git community, Christian.

Junio C Hamano· Feb 20, 2023, 21:31 UTC · re: Christian Couder · lore

Re: How to find places where I can contribute?

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
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>> 1. What is the equivalent for the Git project? How can I find issues/features
>> that I can work on?
>>
>> 2. Is there a way I can find bugs/issues that are likely easy for a new
>> contributor to pick up? Similar to a "good-first-issue" label on GitHub?
>
> We have the following documentation:
>
> https://git.github.io/General-Microproject-Information/
>
> There is also the microproject idea page from last year's GSoC:
>
> https://git.github.io/SoC-2022-Microprojects/

While these are good for GSoC applicants before they do a real project, I didn't read the "where I can contribute?" as such---it asks for something more real, not a toy "dip my toes" practice.

Perhaps looking for #leftoverbits in the list archive may be another approach that would give readers a problem with real upsides?

Thanks.
Divyanshu Agrawal· Feb 20, 2023, 13:48 UTC · lore

Re: How to find places where I can contribute?

Thanks Ankur, this is helpful.
On 19/02/23 21:00, Ankur Saini wrote:
> you might be interested in "Searching for bug reports” section of 
> https://git.github.io/General-Microproject-Information/
- Divyanshu

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