We want the process of becoming a new contributor to be as easy as possible (idea for improvement?). We've put together the following list of tasks that have low complexity and are beginner-friendly.
- Work on an easy or intermediate issue
- Fix a Coverity defect warning
Finding something to work on is only part of the process. We encourage anyone interested in becoming involved as a contributor to reach out to a developer for help or mentoring.
Please sign-off your commits by appending the following to your commit message:
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <[email protected]>
If you set your user.name and user.email in git config (e.g. $HOME/.gitconfig), then you can sign your commit automatically with git commit -s (e.g. git commit -s -m "subsystem: new feature").
We run Coverity static analysis periodically on the covery_scan branch. The list of defects can be found here, but you'll need to be added to the project to view the defects. On the defects page click the Add me to project link and we'll grant you access. When submitting a patch that fixes a Coverity issue, use a commit message of the form coverity/<id>: <description> where <id> is the Coverity ID (CID).