[Fedora-join] Re: Introduction - y0031
On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 07:01:49AM -0000, Lilith Jones wrote:
My name is Lilith, and I am currently a grad student. I have been
using
Linux on desktop for around a decade, and am looking to contribute to the
community and help support a great project. This is my first time
contributing to a FOSS project, so I am hoping to find a simple place to
get started and become familiar with the general process of contributing
here. I think I would like to contribute to documentation or qa, but if
there is a better place for new contributors to start out, please let me
know.
Hi Lilith! Welcome!
Those are both great starting places.
If you're looking for more of an existing structure, QA might be easier to
plug into, because there's a very active core group and well-organized
activities like Test Days (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days), as
well as informal things like going through updates in testing
(https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?search=&status=testing), trying
them out, and adding feedback.
The docs project could also use plently of help, and there are some areas
like Quick Docs (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/) which are
pretty easy to get into. The docs team is undergoing a reboot right now,
which might be _good_ — if you'd like to help get that restarted, new energy
is definitely welcome. But that means it's less ready with "helping new
members get onboarded" than QA is.
You might also be interested in Fedora Magazine, which is separate from the
docs and more of a user-facing blog, with more informal and of-the-moment
guides than the Quick Docs, plus human interest kind of stories and other
things like that. See this recent article for some good places to join in
<https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-happening-behind-the-scenes-at-fedora-ma...
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader