* Colton Lewis <cwl...@mst.edu> [170902 06:48]:
I recently took a new job and found myself with extra time I would like to spend working on a free or open source project. I found this post [1] and liked the idea of contributing to wget because it is widely known and very useful to me personally. The small developer pool also made it seem more approachable than some bigger projects. I have good knowledge of C and decent knowledge of the relevant protocols.I wanted to introduce myself and ask the main priorities of the project right now so I can be most useful. I see the bug tracker has many open issues and some are quite old. Perhaps I can start by testing and closing old issues. Sincerely, Colton Lewis [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=6998&job_id=502
Hi Colton,It's good to hear that you'd like to spend some of your free time contributing to free software projects. Applications like GNU Wget are often in need of more developers / testers.
We have shifted our focus from GNU Wget to GNU Wget2. Wget2 is a replacement for Wget written in C, but with support for more features of the modern web. For Wget2, most of the development happens on the GitLab hosted mirror[1]. You can take a look at the open issues here[2]. There you can see that we have a few open bugs, some design decisions to be made and a couple of ideas for new features. You can pick any of them, and assign the task to yourself so as to let people know that you are working on it. For simpler tasks, you can look at the issues labeled "Junior/GSOC" since these are simpler issues that can be used to dive into the codebase.
Our current aim is to have the codebase a little more cleaned up and polished, the libwget API documented and the major bugs resolved for the initial Alpha Release of Wget2. Any help in that direction is deeply appreciated.
[1]: https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2 [2]: https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/issues -- Thanking You, Darshit Shah PGP Fingerprint: 7845 120B 07CB D8D6 ECE5 FF2B 2A17 43ED A91A 35B6
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