Suggestion for starting contribution to Django

[Faraz Khan]

Hello Mentors and contributors, I am an undergrad CS student. And I was actually looking for some suggestions from your side. I am planning to apply for GSoC next year. I was planning to start making contributions in Django. I am already familiar with Django and packaging, but I have never contributed to Django before. I looked at some issues on GitHub and they look very different from what I was learning all this time. Can you please tell me what do I have to know before I can actually start making contributions? That'll be very helpful. Thank you. 

Best Regards,

Hasan Faraz Khan.

[Carlton Gibson]

Hi Hasan. 

Welcome. Let’s see if we can get you started. 

Begin with the Contributing Guide: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/internals/contributing/

You don’t have to read it all to start. 🙂

Checkout the Advice for New Contributors, and then see if you can get set-up with the Unit Tests. 

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/internals/contributing/new-contributors/

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests/

Both of those link to a tutorial on writing patches, that’s worth stepping through.

More or  less, if you can get the test env setup and run the tests then you should be good to go. 

Then there’s finding a ticket. 

Here’s a link to the issue tracker, showing the open tickets for contrib.staticfiles. 

You can adjust the “Component” drop down and hit “Update” to see other area, and add/remove other filters at will.

We have ≈1100 open accepted tickets, so you should be able to find something. 🙂

If you get stuck, or have questions, or anything else, do post back here, or on the Forum, where there’s a “Mentoring” channel.

https://forum.djangoproject.com/

Hopefully that should get you going. 

Kind regards, Carlton 

[Carlton Gibson]

> Here’s a link to the issue tracker, showing the open tickets for contrib.staticfiles. 

Of course I then fail to paste the link. 🙃

Here’s the link: 
https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=assigned&status=new&component=contrib.staticfiles&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=component&col=owner&col=type&col=version&desc=1&order=id

C.

[Faraz Khan]

Thank you ! I'll look into this.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/43a844c0-eb95-4e80-b0bc-da90deb67372n%40googlegroups.com.

[Shekhar Gyanwali]

Hi Faraz,

Django Chat podcast episode Contributing to Django helped me a lot, where Carlton and Will talked about how the journey could be like for the beginners.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Shekhar

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAF6gKqdXVpT7xTmUZrymS2YF8yBTLubug_F1dBjrHZmVK2dwCw%40mail.gmail.com.