On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 25/06/17 03:32, Kasun Prabath Amarasinghe wrote: >> I am a Beginner. I have searched for bugs marks for Beginners. But i >> couldn't find them. Can anyone help me to find them or Can anyone show me a >> bug which can work on. > > I took a quick look through the open bugs but didn't see anything that > jumped out at me as a beginner bug. However, that doesn't mean there > aren't lots of useful things you could work on. > > Here is just one example.
Got any more examples? I can add this one and others to the new CONTRIBUTING doc in the repo to give new contributors more entry points into the project. > Looking at the code coverage report [1], the coverage for the > DefaultServlet [2] isn't that great given it's importance (it is used to > serve all static content). > > A useful task would be to provide some patches / pull requests to expand > the test coverage of the DefaultServlet. > > The current DefaultServlet unit tests may be found at [3]. They should > provide a useful starting point. > > It is worth keeping in mind that there is a fair amount of duplication > in the unit tests. Refactoring to reduce that duplication is also very > helpful. > > If you are more interested in another part of the code, then you could > look at improving the unit test coverage for that. > > Any questions, just ask. > > Mark > > > [1] https://ci.apache.org/projects/tomcat/tomcat9/coverage/ > [2] > https://ci.apache.org/projects/tomcat/tomcat9/coverage/org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet.html > [3] > https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/trunk/test/org/apache/catalina/servlets/TestDefaultServlet.java?view=annotate > >> >> Thank u >> >> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> On 22/06/17 13:43, Kasun Prabath Amarasinghe wrote: >>>> I'm a computer Engineering undergraduate student. I would like to >>>> contribute to open source projects. But I don't know where to start and >>> how >>>> to start.Can anyone guide me to start. >>>> >>> >>> Welcome to the Apache Tomcat community. >>> >>> There is some useful information available at http://tomcat.apache.org/ >>> Have a look at the links under "Get Involved" in the menu on the left >>> hand side. >>> >>> We have recently started to mark some bugs as "Beginner" if we think >>> they are suitable for someone new to the project. There aren't many of >>> them yet. >>> >>> The most important thing is to do something that you find interesting. >>> >>> If you have any questions, or suggestions for how we can improve the >>> experience for people new to the project, do let us know. >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org >>> >>> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
