JB,
Sorry for the delay in the response, since you didn't subscribe to
the mailing list your email was in the moderation queue (which I
rarely check, just accepted it because I saw your IRC message). Please
read inline:
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Chuck Finley <cf1n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good Morning Everyone,
>
> I am a Computer Science student that is very interested in web security and
> penetration testing (about to begin studying for my OSCP!). For my Software
> Engineering class we have been asked to make a small contribution to an
> open-source project - so what better project to contribute to than W3af! I
> am very familiar with the concept of open-source projects, however outside
> of creating a Wordpress plugin, I have not contributed to one.
That's perfect, tell your professor/teacher that he rocks.
We have two documents you'll find interesting:
https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/wiki/Contributing-101
https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/wiki/First-steps-as-a-contributor
> Anyways, I was browsing through the Issues in the Github repo but I feel
> like I might be too green to tackle some of those (despite some Python
> experience). I wanted to reach out and see if there are any small bugs or
> maybe an update to some Documentation or something that you guys might be
> able to recommend for me to update
Regarding the specific task you might try to implement, this is
simple enough:
https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af/issues/4794
If that's too simple, then we can look into something else.
> Don't worry - I am not just some student who wants someone to do their
> homework for them, and then you will never hear from them again. I want to
> actively contribute to this project going forward - just looking for a bit
> of guidance for my first (small) contribution as we are under a short
> timeline for this assignment.
Cool! Feel free to contact me at #w3af , my nickname is __apr__
> Thank you all very much and I look forward to being apart of the W3af
> developer community!
Welcome!
> - JB
>
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