Hi,

On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 03:41:15PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > The project page has a section to point people in the right direction
> > for first-time contributions. I've left it blank for now, but I think it
> > makes sense to point one (or both) of:
> >
> >   - https://git-scm.com/docs/MyFirstContribution
> >
> >   - https://matheustavares.gitlab.io/posts/first-steps-contributing-to-git
> >
> > as well as a list of micro-projects (or at least instructions on how to
> > find #leftoverbits, though we'd definitely have to step up our labeling,
> > as I do not recall having seen one for a while).
>
> And we should make sure that all microprojects are indeed micro in
> size.  Matheus sent v8 of a 10 patch series in July that started out
> as a microproject back in February...

Indeed.

> Here is one more idea for microprojects:
>
>   Find a group of related preprocessor constants and turn them into an
>   enum.  Also find where those constants are stored in variables and
>   in structs and passed around as function parameters, and change the
>   type of those variables, fields and parameters to the new enum.

I agree that this is a good suggestion, and turned this #leftoverbits
into https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/357.

Ciao,
Dscho

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