Nadishka, I'm glad that you're interested in contributing to an open source project. That's great!
There are many ways to help. I think there are so many ways to help that you can choose one that you find most interesting and try it for a while. If you find that is not working well enough for you, you can try other ways to help. Some of the ways you might assist the Jenkins git-client-plugin and the git-plugin projects include: - Help other users on the Jenkins users mailing list, specifically with git client and git plugin questions - Compile and experiment with the git plugin <https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin> or the git client plugin <https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-client-plugin> code - Exploratory test git client plugin 2.0.0-beta1 and git plugin 3.0.0-beta1, from the experimental update center <https://jenkins.io/blog/2013/09/23/experimental-plugins-update-center/>, specifically as it relates to authentication (https, ssh, etc.). Those beta versions have changed the authentication techniques and need deep verification before release. The specific changes are related to authentication of submodules, but the changes are large enough that all authentication use cases need to be verified - Review and verify bug reports (git plugin <https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/issues/?filter=14040> and git client plugin <https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/issues/?filter=14041>). When you verify a bug report and provide detailed steps to show that the problem is repeatable, you save time for others as they can reuse your steps - Create automated tests to duplicate bug reports, submit them as pull requests to the git plugin <https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin> or the git client plugin <https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-client-plugin> repos. An automated test to duplicate a bug report is often the first step to understand and fix a bug - Improve the javadoc in the git plugin <https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin> or the git client plugin <https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-client-plugin> and submit the improvements as pull requests. Specifically, the git plugin javadoc has many warnings when built with JDK 8. It would be nice to fix those - Write automated tests for interesting statements in the javadoc, after checking if those statements are already covered by an existing test - Create automated acceptance tests and submit as pull requests to the acceptance test harness <https://github.com/jenkinsci/acceptance-test-harness>. This may be especially interesting if you'd like to learn more about Jenkins, Selenium (web test automation) and Docker (Linux containers) - Create automated tests to verify less used features (like submodules) and submit them as pull requests to the git plugin <https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin> or the git client plugin <https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-client-plugin> repos - Create portable Jenkins jobs in docker which verify interesting Jenkins use cases, submit them to my collection of Jenkins bug check jobs <https://github.com/MarkEWaite/docker/tree/lts-with-plugins> in a Docker instance. This may be interesting if you want to learn more about Docker and rapid exploratory testing of Jenkins and its plugins - Explore and document the different ways that authentication can fail in a Jenkins git project, document those failure modes and the diagnostic steps someone might take to identify and resolve problems I'm sure that is only a small beginning of the ways you can help. The Jenkins project is an especially nice place to help because your help can benefit many people. Thanks, Mark Waite On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 11:37 PM nadishka prabhashani < nadishkaprabhashani...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am new to open source contribution. I like to contribute Jenkins > git-client-plugin-master project. But I don't understand from where to > start. > So I need your help. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPX603tMk%3DUN2R3Ov29RWOMa4x8M-i-_gdRwnQ3N8Jas0MTOzg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPX603tMk%3DUN2R3Ov29RWOMa4x8M-i-_gdRwnQ3N8Jas0MTOzg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtGLbZb_FKgxRBnrLjMJ5mHCr%3D7vzE2ZwdMijkgmTBX24w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
