Akash and Sarthak - thanks for your interest and welcome. Because Fineract is a large code base used in production at regulated financial institutions, it is essential that new contributors start with understanding the code base rather than trying to add new features. There is a tendency for devs to want to do the "next cool thing" when really what is needed is more documentation, more test coverage, more detailed tickets, more reviews of changes.
As a first step, you can review the existing PRs that are coming in. Do they make sense to you? Can you follow the logic? Are the details in the Jira ticket sufficient? You might want to try that for a week or two or five. Following project activity is a very important first step. You might even have some clarifying questions that could help the project become better. That is also a contribution. Secondly, look for areas that are not well covered. On many open source projects, too many devs are writing too much code with too little documentation. That is true here as well. Once you understand the features and functions and the structure of the code, can you help with some small piece of documentation? ... we need people digging into specific areas that are in the code and documenting what is there. That might also involve more test coverage in Cucumber (Gherkin files). Third, you might look at the really old jira tickets, and validate one by one that the tickets are still needing to be fixed. We have hundreds of old tickets that have creation dates before 2022 and I strongly suspect 90% are no longer valid. This is tedious work, but is needed. Pick a ticket, read it, determine if it seems real, put a comment that "yes, verified as of github checkpoint xxxx-xxxx" that the issue still exists" or "no, verified as of ... that the bug ticket is no longer valid". Generally, contributors should come with very modest aims at first. This is a very complex project. James On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 3:30 AM Sarthak Deokar <deokarsartha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am also suffering the same issues hope we could connect and work together > > Regards, > Sarthak Deokar > > On Sun, Nov 24, 2024, 13:08 Akash Nadar <akashnada...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I’m Akash, a new contributor to Apache Fineract. I have experience with >> Java, Spring Boot, and building REST APIs. I’ve successfully set up the >> project locally, including database connections, and have explored the >> Swagger documentation. >> >> I couldn’t find any "good first issues" or beginner-friendly tasks on the >> GitHub Issues page. Could someone please suggest a task or guide me on how >> I can get started with my first contribution? I’m particularly interested >> in working on APIs or improving existing features. >> >> Looking forward to your guidance! >> >> Thanks and regards, >> Akash >> >
