On 2014-02-12 14:42:17 -0600 (-0600), Dolph Mathews wrote: [...] > There's a lot of such scenarios where new contributors can > quickly find things to contribute, or at lest provide incredibly > valuable feedback to the project in the form of reviews! [...]
I heartily second the suggestion. The biggest and best thing I did as a new contributor was to start reviewing changes first thing. An initial contributor, if they have any aptitude for software development at all, will be able to tell a ton about our development community by how it interacts through code review. The test-centric methodology, style guidelines and general level of acceptance/tolerance for various things become immediately apparent. You also get to test your understanding of the source by watching all the mistakes other reviewers find that you missed in your reviewing. Refine and repeat. Getting a couple of very simple changes in right away also helps you pick up the workflow and toolset, but reviewing others changes is a huge boon to both the project and the would-be contributors doing the reviewing... much more so than correcting a handful of typographical errors. -- Jeremy Stanley _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
