Ankush Khandelwal writes:

   I am an undergraduate student pursuing Computer Science from IIIT

Hyderabad ( India ), currently in 3rd year and I'm newbie to this organization. I am familiar with python and Git. Can somebody tell me about the bugs which I can solve so that I can start contributing.

Any of the ones listed at https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/issues/?

That's a joke, of course, but unfortunately the list if you select label "beginner-friendly" is rather sparse (currently 1 issue is listed). So at this point nobody really has a handle on this.

One *really* useful task you could do is go through a handful of issues (say 10-25) and label the ones you think you *could* do as "beginner-friendly" (and grab any you *like* by adding a comment that you're working on them :-). Then post the list of issues you evaluated (with the results) so somebody can (a) check your evaluations for you, (b) we get a better idea of what new developers *think* they can do (as opposed to our idea of what we think they should be able to do), and (c) change any that are actually far deeper than they look.

Such "triage"[1] is a more or less neglected task for all the projects I know of. Of course coding is more fun, but (at least at Mailman's current state of 1 open "beginner-friendly" issue) triage is more productive.

Steve

Footnotes: [1] https://docs.python.org/devguide/triaging.html This page is for Python, but the basic principles apply to any project.