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| frontends with HTML/CSS/JS (e.g. [Rustdoc][rustdoc-ui] or [Benchmark suite website][rustc-perf-ui]). | ||
| Play to your strengths! | ||
| - Improving documentation is possibly one of the easiest starting points for contributions. | ||
| Did you find a typo, something that was unclear, or do you miss some useful information on this |
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| Did you find a typo, something that was unclear, or do you miss some useful information on this | |
| Did you find a typo in user-facing material, something that was unclear, or do you miss some useful information on this |
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At the end of the sentence I explicitly stated that it's about documentation, but I guess someone could interpret that as also e.g. "comments in rustc" and I know that these kinds of PRs are not ideal :D
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Yeah I figured the base is already covered but I wanna be really sure we covered our bases 😆
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| - You can also help with improving issue trackers of our repositories, by helping with triaging issues | ||
| or by reproducing old issues to find out whether they are still valid or not. |
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Suggestion: backlink to the Issue Triage page?
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I wanted to avoid repo-specific things on this page. But I guess that issue triaging on r-l/r is similar to other repos, so let's link it.
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We have discussed this at the All Hands and on Zulip.
This PR adds a new page to Forge that should serve as a landing page for people that would like to start contributing to Rust. I took some content from the previous (very barebones) "Help Wanted" section in the Forge homepage, and from the "What should I work on?" section from rdg, combined them together, and extended them.
After/if this is merged, I'll go edit rdg to remove things that are not strictly related to the compiler from the "What should I work on?" page, and keep only compiler stuff there, as the general documentation should be in the Forge.
r? @davidtwco
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