How to find places where I can contribute?

How to find places where I can contribute?

[Divyanshu Agrawal]

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

Re: How to find places where I can contribute?

[Christian Couder]

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 3:39 PM Divyanshu Agrawal <agrawal-d@outlook.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

> 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outdated.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.

Re: How to find places where I can contribute?

[Divyanshu Agrawal]

Thanks Christian, for the pointers to the documentation. This will help 
me get
started.

- Divyanshu

Re: How to find places where I can contribute?

[Junio C Hamano]

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.

Re: How to find places where I can contribute?

[Divyanshu Agrawal]

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