Yes thanks guys.
I did look at all the issues about feature requests and bug fixes, and they all seemed a little heavy to just dive into. Didn't have a very good look at PRs, I think I'll do that next. I think getting involved in the community answering questions and understanding the project(s) more would be a better first step to get my hands wet.
One issue I did discover was the threading group being thread unsafe. Running that on 1000 hosts wasn't a good idea, but running it on 100 worked. Fab tool has a pool_size option? I'm not sure how it worked and why I couldn't find docs about it to use it in the library. I'm sure there's an explanation and I'll hunt. I'll take Jeff's feedback seriously and try contributing in areas that don't involve submitting new code directly.
Thanks a lot. I really appreciate it. The thing I loved the most about fabric was invoke's "watchers" option. Wasn't able to find that anywhere else honestly.
Hi Deepankar,
Andrew's right that the issues are a good place to look first!
Especially, reading over existing open PRs and supplying feedback (ie
if you notice mistakes, missing docs/changelog entries, etc) or
independently confirming that they fix the described issue / add the
described feature.
Right now we have more input than we have time to review/merge/fixup,
so this kind of help is honestly even more valuable than adding
additional patches to the queue. This applies to all 3 of the
interrelated repos (Fabric, Paramiko, Invoke) - whichever fits your
existing comfort level / experience best.
Thanks,
Jeff
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 5:15 PM Andrew Latham <lathama@gmail.com> wrote:
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> It may be best to start with the issues at https://github.com/fabric/fabric/issues and see if there are issues around topics that your are interested in.
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> On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 2:03 PM Deepankar Pundale <deepankar.pundale@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello kind people,
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>> I'm a noob sys/aws admin who has been using Fabric extensively for more than year. I wish to contribute some code to it. I would've liked to hit IRC, but the channels are closed.
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>> Given the nature of my noob-ness, I was wondering how I could go about contributing to this project (or even paramiko/invoke). Or if that goal seems too high hanging, learn about what I could do to reach it eventually.
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>> I would very much appreciate some guidance from people who know more about this than me.
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>> Kind regards,
>> Deepankar.
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