@zadjadr contributor onboarding

Welcome to your GitLab contributor onboarding issue! 🎉

Hi @zadjadr, 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

✅ We've created a checklist of contributor onboarding items, some of which you might have already completed!

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 #contribute channel

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 win documentation issues
  • quick win frontend issues
  • quick win backend 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 win issue 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 win issues or check out other subgroups and projects within GitLab:
    • cli
    • GitLab Terraform Provider
    • GitLab Runner
    • gitaly
  • Contribute to the CI/CD components catalog
    • CI/CD components documentation
    • Development guide
    • Introducing the GitLab CI/CD Catalog Beta