@maldee264 contributor onboarding

🌟 Welcome to Your GitLab Contribution Journey! 🌟

🎉 Welcome to the GitLab Community! 🎊

Hey @maldee264! We're thrilled to have you join our amazing community of contributors! 🤝

This issue will guide you through your journey to becoming a GitLab contributor. Our experienced maintainers (@gitlab-community/maintainers) will review your community forks access request and help you get started.

🚀 Your Contribution Adventure

Welcome to your GitLab contribution quest! You've already taken the first step by requesting access - now let's explore what's next on your path to becoming a contributor!

🎬 First Steps

• Request access to the community forks
  • Our maintainers will reach out if they need more info to approve your request
  • Watch for the access-requestapproved label once your request has been approved
• Say hello in the community Discord #contribute channel 👋
• Experience the power of GitLab Duo - our AI suite including Code Suggestions, Chat, and more! 🤖
  • You'll receive your GitLab Duo Enterprise license welcome email after your access is approved

📚 Master the Basics

• Follow our Tutorial: Make a GitLab Contribution
• Join a community pairing session to learn from others 👥

🎯 Find Your First Issue

• Choose your first issue:
  • First-time contributor issues 🌱
  • Quick wins
  • quick win docs 📝
  • quick win frontend 🎨
  • quick win backend ⚙️
• Add a comment to the issue you would like to work on along with any thoughts or questions
• Follow the implementation plan provided

🛠️ Make Your First Contribution

• Pick your development environment and make your changes
• Create your merge request using a community fork
• Follow the review process to get your work merged!

🏆 Level Up Your Impact

• Explore the GitLab Contributors Platform to track your impact 📊
  • View your contribution metrics and achievements on your personal dashboard 🏅
  • Track your progress on the global contributor rankings 🏆
  • Showcase your organization's impact on the company leaderboard 💫
    • Hint: update your profile, adding your company name under Organization
• Join our next GitLab Hackathon 🎪
• Keep the momentum going:
  • Try another quick win
  • Create your own issue 💡
  • Explore our other exciting projects:
    • cli 🖥️
    • GitLab Terraform Provider ⚡
    • GitLab Runner 🏃
    • gitaly 🔄
  • Help build the CI/CD components catalog:
    • CI/CD components 📖
    • Development guide 🔧

/cc @gitlab-community/maintainers