Resources for new contributors?

casey commented 6 years ago

I was thinking that it might be a good idea to collect resources for new contributors to grin in one place, might this repo be a good place for that? The website might be another place to do it.

Some ideas for things that would help people jump into the codebase:

Links to issues tagged help wanted
Links to issues tagged good first issue
List of larger projects or features which are generally agreed on as being desirable, but nobody is necessarily working on. I'm thinking of betterhash and a DHT, but there are almost certainly more. Currently, these kinds of things are usually discussed on the mailing list or in chat, making them hard for a potential contributor to discover.

lehnberg commented 6 years ago

Good thinking @casey!

In terms of location, I think the suggestion itself belonged as an issue here in /grin-pm (just like you did basically) as it allows us to track it and close it once done. Thanks for raising it!

For the actual resource, I would suggest we do it on the wiki, to allow community members to be able to update it freely. Makes sense?

casey commented 6 years ago

Sounds good! Should I start a page in github.com/mimblewimble/docs/wiki?

lehnberg commented 6 years ago

Go for it! You might also consider to just add and improve on this one: https://github.com/mimblewimble/docs/wiki/Hacking-and-contributing

casey commented 5 years ago

Just added a simple section at the end of the Hacking and Contributing section.

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