Vaishak Prashanth a écrit :

Hello Mark.

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Vaishak Prashanth a écrit : Hello everyone !

I'm Vaishak, and I've recently started off in the open source community. You can check out a couple of my projects at github/vaishakp9 They're not much, but they're open source nevertheless.

I've been an avid user of phpmyadmin for over a year now. I want to start helping the community buy fixing bugs.

I've got a working knowledge of PHP, HTML, C, C++ and some JavaScript.

Could you please recommend a fairly easy bug for me to work on ?

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Hi Vaishak, Is this intended to show us your skills for Google Summer of >Code?

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And where do I start looking to fix said bug on the admittedly huge codebase ?

Thanks a lot !

Cheers Vaishak P

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-- Marc Delisle (phpMyAdmin)

Yes. This is intended to show my skills for Google Summer Of Code. But not only for that. I wasn't very aware of open source projects ... I kept using phpmyadmin ...

And then I heard about GSoC and attended a seminar, which is where I realized I could actually contribute.

So. Yes. This would be for Google Summer of Code, but irrespective of whether I get it or not... I want to contribute to phpmyadmin in a major way.

Regards, Vaishak

Hi, well, fixing "a fairly easy bug" is probably not the best way to show your skills to the mentoring team. Please have a look at the bug tracker and/or the feature requests tracker, pick something that is unassigned and mention in the ticket that you are working on it.

I suggest to pick some recent bug tickets or feature requests, as older ones may be out of date or more tricky to solve.