Searching for the Right Issue

Over the past couple of weeks, our group has become much more comfortable navigating the AFFiNE repository, documentation, and issue tracker. At this point, our group have started looking through the pages of issues and figured out which one to take over.

One of the biggest things we realized this week is that finding a suitable issue is more challenging than we initially expected. We have been regularly browsing the issue tracker and identifying potential bugs or improvements that seem manageable for new contributors. However, we ran into a recurring problem: several of the issues we were interested in ended up being resolved quickly by other contributors before we had the chance to start working on them.

Another challenge is that many of the open issues are feature requests rather than small bugs. Because of this, our first initial response was to ignore it and continue filtering through the list for smaller scoped issues.

Reflection

Looking back on my previosu contributions, I noticed I’ve not been trying my hand out on harder contributions. Sure, I have OpenStreeMap and Wikipedia, but they’re not code based. For next steps, I do hope to be on track and get my hands dipped in heavier issues for example, ui/ux or maybe even some scrollbar issue for a website.