I know this is a bit cliche-ish, but documentation is always a great place
to start.
1) Fresh perspective is always valuable. As developers get
"self-indoctrinated", we get used to various gaps in the documentation such
that they become blind spots for us. This is why the sign of a healthy
project is infusion of new blood.
2) In-depth documentation review is a great way to figure out deviations
between code and documentation. When I was developing my "Anatomy of
Matplotlib" tutorial, I came across a number of errors and omissions
because of it.
There are also MEPs that are awaiting further review (I think the toolbar
refactor is getting close to being ready for final acceptance). MEP reviews
by newcomers are great because it helps to make sure that some major new
feature are actually considered as useful by newcomers and also make sense
to them (see "self-indoctrination").
Welcome to the party!
Ben Root
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Paul Ganssle <pgans...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Howdy,
>
> I've been a matplotlib user for some time, and I've been thinking
> about contributing to the project. I poked around in the github issues
> list, particularly the low-hanging fruit tag
> (https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/labels/low%20hanging%20fruit),
> but nothing immediately struck my fancy, and I don't want to step on
> any toes / reduplicate any significant efforts, so I thought I'd throw
> it out there to the devs - do you guys have anything to point me
> towards that I could get started and at least get into the swing of
> things?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
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