Hi Dhruv, your help is welcome. Here are a few pointers that come to mind:
Get familiar with the command line; that's where developers spend their test iterations. Setup a virual working environment: $ mkvirtualenv dhruv-scrapy https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenvwrapper Create a directory to work in: $ mkdir ~/Scrapy Setup Scrapy so you have the dependencies installed: $ pip install scrapy Fork scrapy from Github: (click the "Fork" button, Github account required) https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy#fork-destination-box Install & configure Git: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git/ Clone your fork: $ git clone [email protected]:dhruv/scrapy.git Install your fork: $ pip install -e ~/Scrapy/scrapy Run the tests: http://doc.scrapy.org/en/master/contributing.html#tests If you get the all-green from the tox tests then you're ready to contribute. See the contribution page: http://doc.scrapy.org/en/master/contributing.html And select some easy tickets to start with: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aeasy Start writing some spiders and play with the code. Good luck and have fun. +steven On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 11:13:17 AM UTC-7, Dhruv Khattar wrote: > > > I am in my sophomore year and would like to start contributing. > I would be highly grateful if someone could help me get started. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
