First timer-- wants to contribute to Joomla!

[Yash Bansal]

Hello,

I am new to open source contribution and want to contribute for Joomla!. Can anyone help me to get started with it.

Thanks in advance.

[stell]

Check this out:

https://github.com/joomla/joomla-platform/wiki/Contributing-to-the-joomla-platform

[Walt Sorensen aka photodude]

Depends on how you want to contribute

Testers for PRs are always needed. Currently, in the CMS there are about 380 open PR's. Of those only about 23 have received testing and the RTC tag for successful tests.

There are also about 488 open issues not addressed by a PR in the CMS yet. so if you have the knowhow and time to figure out how to fix things, that is also needed. 

Testing Instructions

https://docs.joomla.org/Testing_Joomla!_patches

Reading and cleaning up the Documentation is always a big project and is a good place to learn from and help.

You can always find more opportunities help on the volunteers site

https://volunteers.joomla.org/

PR = pull request, these are proposed code fixes

RTC = Ready to commit, these are patches that have been tested and could make it into a future version.

There is also a mailing group specific to the CMS development https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/joomla-dev-cms

With that being said, welcome to the community; and thanks for being willing to contribute.