Tools: Latest Day 5: The Guidance Arrives... Finally!
Firstly, thanks for reading this and secondly I finally got the flow of GNOME Open Source Contributions!
So after a long time of getting ignored by the maintainers (not saying the maintainers don’t pay attention but there’s a ton of new issues popping up in the app I am trying to contribute to 😅), I decided to try out something else in GNOME and by something else I mean some other issue or maybe another app altogether.
Hence I started looking for more issues with the newcomers tag but sadly there were none other than the one I made the fix for 🥲. So I did what anyone would not have done, I just closed the window and started focusing on other stuff, come on what else would you expect from a BTech CSE student getting ignored for straight 2 weeks 😂
But then yesterday (5th Feb), I opened gitlab again and seeing nothing I lost hope again but… I opened a new tab and searched this how does contributing to GNOME work?? And then I got this link as the 4th result which changed everything, literally!
This was the GNOME Project Handbook made for guiding any one be it a newcomer or a maintainer. And I don’t even qualify for a newcomer yet 😂 so I did what I do best, I just read the whole page before I came across this link which is the link for the GNOME Welcome page which is meant to specifically guide beginners. I wish I had found this earlier 😂🥲
The welcome page had a good amount of information but my eyes dragged right on the matrix chat for newcomers. Yeah there is an actual chat on the matrix for newcomers! Which I got to know so late 🧐
So me being me I instantly joined the chat and sent this message:
Hi there, I am Meet and I am looking forward to contributing to GNOME. Where can I find some instructions on the flow of making a contribution? (something like first create a PR or tag a maintainer in a PR to get assigned and then something else and then the contribution is merged into the main repo)
And there were 2 maintainers online (yeah so glad 😌) and one of them then replied making a conversation a bit interesting. I asked about the flow of contribution in GNOME and it was totally different than what I expected! The flow goes like this:
Check if someone is not already working on it (you can figure this out if the issue is simple yet there have been no comments for more than 2-3 weeks about making a fix on it)
Source: Dev.to
