[Mailman-Developers] GSoC'16 Contribution

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Ibrahim Jarif writes:

 > I'm Ibrahim Jarif. I'm studying computer engineering (3rd year). I wish to
 > apply for GSoC'16 with the mailman Project.

Welcome!

 > I'd really appreciate if someone could guide me and get me started with the
 > project.

The place to start is by bookmarking the GSoC 2016 page at

    http://wiki.list.org/DEV/Google%20Summer%20of%20Code%202016

and the DEV page itself at

    http://wiki.list.org/DEV/

If you haven't already checked Google's rules, do so at the "new GSoC
page" at

    https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

(note that it's not "google-melange.com" any more!)

If you have a "Mailman itch" you need to "scratch", please let us know
about it.  It might make a good GSoC project.  If not, check the ideas
page (the first link above).

Finally, once you've got yourself a bit oriented, you should get
yourself a gitlab account[1], and check the issues at

    https://gitlab.com/groups/mailman/issues

for something easy (like a doc fix), and start working toward a merge
request.  We want you to have at least one under your belt before
starting the summer.  (It doesn't have to be approved and merged for
you to qualify -- it's just proof that you're ready to deal with the
mechanics of contributing to Mailman.)

Footnotes: 
[1]  Not github, nothing against github personally but since we're a
GNU project, our Fearless Leader gets annoyed by RMS if we use
non-free resources, and that is pretty fearsomely annoying. :-)