Re: [Bug-wget] Need Guidance to start contributing to Wget

[Ángel González]

On 22/10/14 18:26, Naman Bhayani wrote:
> Hello sir,
>   I am Naman,i study EEE,2nd year at BITS Pilani.
>   I am relatively new to opensource contribution.I have started contributing
> since a few days and i am actively contributing BinPy organisation,and it
> participated in gsoc  2014.
>
> My Github Profile: https://github.com/Rapternmn
>
> My skills:C,C++,Python,Basic web development.
> I am willing to learn a lot more things.
>
> Please tell me what do i need to know to start contributing to wget and how
> should i begin contributing?
>
> Thank you very much
Hello Naman,
We welcome your prospective contributions to wget.
The first thing you should do is build the development version of wget 
from the repository. wget uses a git respoitory at 
git://git.savannah.gnu.org/wget.git I don't expect that you find 
problems there, but feel free to ask any doubt.
The main development happens on this mailing list. After you prepare a 
patch, you should send it here for inclusion, where it can be discussed 
or -if there are no issues- simply get pushed by the maintainer. Of 
course, you can also comment on other people patches, too.
If you make non-trivial changes, you may be asked to transfer copyright 
to FSF. But it's not something to concern about for now.

What to contribute? Well, that's up to you. I recommend that you start 
by looking at something that you want fixed, but you can also look at 
the bugs listed at savanna http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=wget for 
one that you find appropiate for attempting to fix it.

Although as you are starting, I recommend you to tell us before (on this 
mailing list) about what you are going to do, in case there is something 
special to take into account.

Best regards