Hi David, Nice to meet you! To get started you need to select what to work on: check some ideas in our wiki https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/wiki/GSoC-2014-Ideas. If you don't have lots of experience it is better to aim for "Easy" and "Intermediate" projects.
If you are new to Scrapy it may be a good idea to follow its tutorial (http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/tutorial.html) and create a small personal scraping project. It is hard to contribute to a project if you don't have a use for it. Are you familiar with github, and contributing to open source overall? Scrapy tutorial has some mistakes in it, so bonus points for contributing the tutorial fix to scrapy :) There is a nice picture in PSF GSoC wiki: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/12525131914_d5054dc0ac_o.png - maybe it will also help you. четверг, 6 марта 2014 г., 3:14:46 UTC+6 пользователь David Tsai написал: > > Hi all, > > My name is David Tsai, and I am a first year computer science student at > the University of California in Berkeley. I am a beginner at Python and > have very little project based programming experience, but I am interested > in contributing to Scrapy. I plan on applying to GSoC to potentially work > on a Scrapy project over the summer, and I would appreciate some feedback > and pointers as to how I can get my feet wet with Scrapy work. If you have > tips or suggestions for my application or what I could get started on as a > Scrapy novice, I would love to hear them. > > Best, > David Tsai > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scrapy-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to scrapy-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to scrapy-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.