Thanks for the advice! Is there a resource you recommend for contributing to open source? I've been leafing through github documentation and would be interested in reading a less general resource to help get me started.
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 2:36:25 AM UTC-8, Mikhail Korobov wrote: > > Hi David, > > Nice to meet you! To get started you need to select what to work on: check > some ideas in our wiki > https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/wiki/GSoC-2014-Ideas. If you don't have > lots of experience it is better to aim for "Easy" and "Intermediate" > projects. > > If you are new to Scrapy it may be a good idea to follow its tutorial ( > http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/tutorial.html) and create a small > personal scraping project. It is hard to contribute to a project if you > don't have a use for it. Are you familiar with github, and contributing to > open source overall? Scrapy tutorial has some mistakes in it, so bonus > points for contributing the tutorial fix to scrapy :) > > There is a nice picture in PSF GSoC wiki: > http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/12525131914_d5054dc0ac_o.png - maybe > it will also help you. > > четверг, 6 марта 2014 г., 3:14:46 UTC+6 пользователь David Tsai написал: >> >> Hi all, >> >> My name is David Tsai, and I am a first year computer science student at >> the University of California in Berkeley. I am a beginner at Python and >> have very little project based programming experience, but I am interested >> in contributing to Scrapy. I plan on applying to GSoC to potentially work >> on a Scrapy project over the summer, and I would appreciate some feedback >> and pointers as to how I can get my feet wet with Scrapy work. If you have >> tips or suggestions for my application or what I could get started on as a >> Scrapy novice, I would love to hear them. >> >> Best, >> David Tsai >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scrapy-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
