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Sustainability and progress

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, python

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points; start by reading the issue and the repository's open issue list. It does not define a code or documentation change or a completion condition, so there is no concrete definition of done.

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Description

With this issue I want to catch your attention to the fact that the development of pygit2 depends very much on your contributions.

As maintainer I do the following things:

  • Review and merge pull requests. Occasionally there is a follow-up to a pull request where I do some further changes.
  • Upgrade to new versions of libgit2 or Python.
  • Releasing new versions of pygit2.
  • Keep the build system and CI working.
  • On rare occasions I pick up an issue or do some improvements by my own initiative.

This is the baseline, and it means that:

  • New features are implemented by contributors through pull requests.
  • The list of issues keeps piling up.

There are 2 important ways you can help the project with your time:

  • Keep sending pull requests.
  • Help with issues, specially helpful is to create a pull request that fixes an issue. But sometimes it's just to answer a question or help reproducing a bug.

If not with time, the other way to help is with money, so I've more time to spend in the project.
I've reviewed my sponsor page, hopefully you will find a tier that fits you.

I'm as well available for contract, since I'm a freelancer, to topics related to pygit2 (and others not related to pygit2). Just drop me an email at jdavid.ibp@gmail.com

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First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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