Re: [Bug-wget] Hello Everyone

[Darshit Shah]

* Colton Lewis <address@hidden> [170902 06:48]:
> I recently took a new job and found myself with extra time I would
> like to spend working on a free or open source project. I found this
> post [1] and liked the idea of contributing to wget because it is
> widely known and very useful to me personally. The small developer
> pool also made it seem more approachable than some bigger projects. I
> have good knowledge of C and decent knowledge of the relevant
> protocols.
>
> I wanted to introduce myself and ask the main priorities of the
> project right now so I can be most useful. I see the bug tracker has
> many open issues and some are quite old. Perhaps I can start by
> testing and closing old issues.
>
> Sincerely,
> Colton Lewis
>
> [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=6998&job_id=502

Hi Colton,

It's good to hear that you'd like to spend some of your free time 
contributing to free software projects. Applications like GNU Wget are 
often in need of more developers / testers.

We have shifted our focus from GNU Wget to GNU Wget2. Wget2 is a 
replacement for Wget written in C, but with support for more features of 
the modern web. For Wget2, most of the development happens on the GitLab 
hosted mirror[1]. You can take a look at the open issues here[2]. There 
you can see that we have a few open bugs, some design decisions to be 
made and a couple of ideas for new features. You can pick any of them, 
and assign the task to yourself so as to let people know that you are 
working on it. For simpler tasks, you can look at the issues labeled 
"Junior/GSOC" since these are simpler issues that can be used to dive 
into the codebase.

Our current aim is to have the codebase a little more cleaned up and 
polished, the libwget API documented and the major bugs resolved for the 
initial Alpha Release of Wget2. Any help in that direction is deeply 
appreciated.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2
[2]: https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/issues

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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah
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