Tasks for new contributors

[ievgen-kapinos]

Hi maintainers!

I'm Software Developer with 15+ years of experience in enterprise Java (LinkedIn). I was touching Python periodically in last 5 years, mostly to write short scripts. Now I have plenty of free time and want to solidify my knowledge in Python and contribute to your project.

Could you suggest some doable, small/medium size task to work on? It is pretty hard to choose.

[j-t-1]

Hi @ievgen-kapinos,

Welcome!

Although not a maintainer, these issues have not had much progess:

#2610 Execute docs examples in CI
#3327 Cleanup ruff ignores [some of these are small to medium]
#3372 Reduce maximum complexity to 30

[stefan6419846]

Thanks for you interest in contributing to pypdf.

While we have a corresponding tag for good first issues, I am usually not setting it due to my experience with other projects. Everyone has other experience and backgrounds and thus it is highly different on what to tackle first - maybe you are more interested in code quality, continuous integration, debugging strange edge cases or writing code to improve conformance or coverage of the PDF specification. Some tasks might require studying the PDF specification or Git history as well to understand all the relevant aspects.

From time to time, we have contributors starting with larger tasks as well, which might are required for their use-cases. In general, consider starting small to get to know the code and to allow you and me as the maintainer to review the changes in a timely manner and to avoid large discussions and frustration due to larger issues.

[ievgen-kapinos]

Thanks you both for reply! As for now I'd to unterstand how Python projects structured. To me refactoring or cleanup tasks fit the best for this purpose. I'll go with a list provided by @j-t-1 🙏. It looks what exactly what I'm looking for!