Welcome to your GitLab contributor onboarding issue! 🎉
Hi USERNAME, welcome to the GitLab community
This issue is designed to help you get up and running as a GitLab contributor. One of the maintainers in the @gitlab-community/maintainers group will review your community forks access request and be available to help you with any onboarding questions.
Onboarding steps
Get started
- Request access to the community forks
- A maintainer will reach out if they need more information to appove the access request
- Once your access is approved this issue label will be updated to access-requestapproved
- Join the community Discord and say hello in the
#contributechannel
Learn the contribution process
- Follow the newly revamped Tutorial: Make a GitLab Contribution
- Recommended: Hop on a community pairing session to see what others are working on or to find help
Find an issue
- Find an issue to work on by using our first-time contributor issues or by finding a quick win
quick windocumentation issuesquick winfrontend issuesquick winbackend issues
- Add a comment to the issue to let others know you would like to work on it
- Follow the issue's implementation plan to start making your merge request
Make your first contribution
- Choose your development environment and make your code changes
- Open a merge request using a community fork
- Complete the review process and merge your first contribution!
Level up
- Request your GitLab swag for merging your first contribution
- Find yourself in the GitLab contributor leaderboard
- Join a GitLab Hackathon
- Make your next contribution and earn more points
- Select another
quick winissue and consider trying a different area from above (documentation, frontend, backend) - Create your own issue to propose a feature/fix to improve GitLab
- Explore beyond
quick winissues or check out other subgroups and projects within GitLab: - Contribute to the CI/CD components catalog
- Select another