karma-runner/karma

Call for Contributors

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#2474 opened on Nov 28, 2016

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Description

As you might have noticed, I'm struggling to maintain all of the karma eco system. This is why I am asking today for your help. If you want to help, please leave comment here so we can get talking. The things that need help the most are

Issues & Support

  • Adding labels to issues
  • Responding and asking for more feedback
  • Closing outdated and solved issues
  • Responding to support and help questions on the issue tracker and stack overflow
  • Figuring out if gitter is good or if we should have another support channel
  • Investigating issues that have the needs: investigation label. Those need confirmation that it is a bug or if it is a support issue.

Documentation & Website

The documentation is pretty good, but needs updates and additions

  • The code in https://github.com/karma-runner/karma-runner.github.com is outdated and needs some work
  • Many of the plus docs need updating and we don't have them for many plugins
  • All the individual plugins need more documentation
  • The site needs updating with new content on the front page. Some ideas for this are in #2200

Code

  • Lots of bugs and features that are waiting to be implemented on the issue tracker :)

Future work

I would like to start discussions around major pain points and improvements in the user experience for karma users. Especially with lessons lerned from tools like Jest and Ava. But also looking to other great testing tools like pytest

Maintaining

I can maintain the main repo, but for the many plugins I need help, especially as there are often for tools I don't use or have good experience with. The major ones are

  • karma-slimerjs-launcher
  • karma-coffee-preprocessor
  • karma-script-launcher
  • karma-dart
  • karma-opera-launcher
  • karma-phantomjs-launcher
  • karma-mocha
  • karma-teamcity-reporter
  • karma-coverage
  • karma-chrome-launcher
  • karma-requirejs
  • karma-ng-html2js-preprocessor
  • karma-junit-reporter
  • karma-browserstack-launcher
  • karma-closure
  • karma-ng-scenario
  • karma-googmodule-preprocessor
  • karma-commonjs
  • karma-dojo
  • karma-firefox-launcher
  • karma-sauce-launcher
  • karma-jasmine
  • karma-webdriver-launcher
  • karma-ie-launcher
  • karma-safari-launcher
  • karma-growl-reporter
  • karma-ember-preprocessor
  • karma-cli
  • karma-intellij
  • maven-karma-plugin
  • karma-traceur-preprocessor
  • karma-nodeunit
  • karma-tyrtle

Karma is an awesome project, but to get it to the next level I will need your help to achieve it.

Contributor guide

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
testingdocumentationdeveloper experience
Issue type
chore
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
2
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-3 hours
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
mostly clear
Prerequisites
JavaScriptKarma usage
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
50
Research direction
This issue is a general call for contributors to the Karma project. Potential contributors are encouraged to help with labeling issues, responding to support requests, updating documentation, and implementing features from the issue tracker. Specific files to consider include the repository's issue tracker and the karma runner.github.com docs repository.