New Contributors Mentoring

If you are a new contributor that wishes to start investing time in Mercurial development, you can grab one of the "Mentored" task. These tasks are low hanging fruits selected by core developers to help newcomers get a grasp of the code base and contribution process.

Contents

  1. List of Mentored task per topic
  2. Small "First" tasks
      1. Task involving only Rust code
      2. Task involing mostly Rust code, with rust-cpython usage
      3. Task involving Python Only
  3. Medium Sized Task
      1. Task involving Rust code

1. List of Mentored task per topic

2. Small "First" tasks

These tasks should be good fit for first contributions. They are reasonably isolated and can be completed in a reasonable amount of time.

2.0.1. Task involving only Rust code

The rhg pure Rust executable is a good pool of simple "first task". Multiple simple command are waiting to be implemented:

2.0.2. Task involing mostly Rust code, with rust-cpython usage

Mercurial's revlog have an "index" object that implement various data access and graph computation logic. In Rust, we have a "MixedIndex" class that forward these computation to the C code. Implementing these method in Rust would get us closer to using a pure Rust index.

Computation on the graph:

Data access:

2.0.3. Task involving Python Only

3. Medium Sized Task

These tasks are a bit more ambitious. They can be used to dive a bit deeper in some aspect of Mercurial. They can often be sliced in multiple subtasks

3.0.1. Task involving Rust code

NewContributors (last edited 2022-07-13 15:12:03 by Pierre-YvesDavid)