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Forgotten TODOs: ideas for contributing to open-source projects
I often talk to students that want to contribute to open-source projects, but just don't have an idea what to work on.Here's a tip if you're in a similar situation (e.g. you want to apply for GSOC) :1 git clone repository_url_of_some_open_source_project target_directory2 grep -RIn TODO target_directory/*So, find the URL of the repository project you want to contribute to, checkout the repository using git/mercurial/svn and then find all the TODOs in the source code using grep.The -RIn flags will tell grep to do a recursive search (-R), skip binary files (-I) and include line numbers (-n) for r...
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