Ibrahim Jarif writes:

I'm Ibrahim Jarif. I'm studying computer engineering (3rd year). I wish to apply for GSoC'16 with the mailman Project.

Welcome!

I'd really appreciate if someone could guide me and get me started with the project.

The place to start is by bookmarking the GSoC 2016 page at

http://wiki.list.org/DEV/Google%20Summer%20of%20Code%202016

and the DEV page itself at

http://wiki.list.org/DEV/

If you haven't already checked Google's rules, do so at the "new GSoC page" at

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

(note that it's not "google-melange.com" any more!)

If you have a "Mailman itch" you need to "scratch", please let us know about it. It might make a good GSoC project. If not, check the ideas page (the first link above).

Finally, once you've got yourself a bit oriented, you should get yourself a gitlab account[1], and check the issues at

https://gitlab.com/groups/mailman/issues

for something easy (like a doc fix), and start working toward a merge request. We want you to have at least one under your belt before starting the summer. (It doesn't have to be approved and merged for you to qualify -- it's just proof that you're ready to deal with the mechanics of contributing to Mailman.)

Footnotes: [1] Not github, nothing against github personally but since we're a GNU project, our Fearless Leader gets annoyed by RMS if we use non-free resources, and that is pretty fearsomely annoying. :-)