I’ve been very passionate about the open source community since the very first day I used Linux and learnt about it. I always wanted to contribute to open source projects especially to software I use daily.
I’m in my senior year in my College, pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and Software Systems at Ain Shams University, So I saw this as a great opportunity to get more experience with the help of a mentor and an awesome community to enhance my skills, while also helping in improving, making an impact to and extending software I really like and appreciate it’s working flow, simplicity, and elegance like GNOME.
So I began this year by studying and learning more about the technologies used to develop GNOME Software e.g. GObject, Glib, etc. Then around February I saw the ideas list at GNOME website and I was really interested in gitg ideas, So I contacted gitg IRC channel, talked with the Project Maintainer (Alberto Fanjul, “albfan” on IRC) and told him that I’m interested, he presented me with a newcomers’ issue and I made a MR for it. Then I created a pet project just to play around more with libgit2-glib library, which is a wrapper for the libgit2 APIs.
Between the application period and the announcement of the accepted students, I’ve been trying to read more in detail the code base of gitg. I also tried to contribute to a feature I really like, that exists in most diff tools, which is highlighting the changes within the modified lines. I’ve made a MR for the progress I made so far, it’s still a WIP though, so I still need to try improving and testing it.
I’m really excited and looking forward to working with this awesome community, and for the upcoming weeks. I’m looking forward to being a part of GNOME and contributing to it.
