New contributor and first PR · contributing

Stream: contributing

Topic: New contributor and first PR

Jean-Charles Quillet (Nov 14 2023 at 13:54):

Hi :wave:

My name is Jean-Charles.

I have a bit of free time these days, so I thought of contributing to Roc. I find this project super interesting.

Here is the first PR I made:
https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/pull/5982

I plan to work on a few other good first issues and, if things go well, move on to more involved PRs.

Cheers!

Anton (Nov 14 2023 at 14:09):

Welcome Jean-Charles :)
Thanks for your contribution, I'll take a look right now

Richard Feldman (Nov 14 2023 at 14:20):

awesome, thank you so much @Jean-Charles Quillet!

and welcome! :smiley:

Jean-Charles Quillet (Nov 14 2023 at 14:26):

Thx guys :big_smile:

@Richard Feldman I really want to contribute to the code base, but can you help me how should I go about it, should I understand the all the code by reading them or what should I do?? I really want to make a lot of contributions as working on a project like this will be really interesting

Richard Feldman (Dec 13 2023 at 21:18):

I definitely wouldn't try to read all the code - that would take way too long! :big_smile:

I don't think any contributor has read the entire code base, because it's constantly changing

Richard Feldman (Dec 13 2023 at 21:18):

I'd start by looking through the issues tagged good first issue in the repo and see if you can find one that seems doable!

Sahil (Dec 13 2023 at 21:19):

Ok, thanks, I'll do that for sure

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Luke Boswell (Dec 13 2023 at 21:38):

Asking questions here is always a good idea too. I've found the community to be very helpful if I'm trying to do anything. :smiley:

Magdiel Amor (Apr 15 2025 at 14:00):

Hello I'm Magdiel, I would love to contribute to the Roc-lang... I would appreciate any assistance I can get.

Anton (Apr 15 2025 at 14:24):

We're working on a new compiler so there are a limited amount of good first issues available now. I do have this one; I would like to have a markdown link checker written in Roc that checks if the files linked in Glossary.md still exist, for example, for [processing of modules](src/coordinate.zig) it should check if src/coordinate.zig exists in the repository. In case a file is renamed, those links could break, so I want to check Glossary.md regularly with the Roc script.

Would that be something you are interested in?

Magdiel Amor (Apr 15 2025 at 15:57):

Yes interested

Anton (Apr 15 2025 at 16:10):

Cool :)
basic-cli examples will probably be very useful to you. I recommend using File.read_utf8! and Str.split_on(glossary_file_str, "](") to find the spots that contain markdown links. It's ok to skip any http(s) links for now. You can use Path.type! to check if a path exists.