FAQ for Contribution GSSoC'24

[sanjay-kv]

📢 Announcement: New Discussion Topic! 📢

👋 Hello Contributors!
We're thrilled to introduce a new discussion topic on our GitHub page that we believe will ignite some insightful conversations among our community & you can earn a GitHub badge when you help others answer their query. 🎖️

🗣️ How to ask questions:
You can ask questions here by clicking on add a new discussion.

• Simply head over to the "Discussions" Q&A tab on our GitHub page and join the conversation!
• Link to q&a here : https://github.com/GSSoC24/Contributor/discussions/categories/q-a
• Share your Questions
• For the new people before posting their question use search to find whether your question has been asked or not.

Why this change?💡
We receive a huge number of queries on emails, discord, and other platforms, so answering all questions seems a huge task.

So here another community member can help you answer questions and can see similar questions you have + those who help answer a question can earn a badge from GitHub.

🚀 Let's dive into the future, one discussion at a time! See you there!

Mail related issue : #5

[avikaagarwalll]

How to connect with the mentors?

[rashi07dashore]

You can connect with mentors through Discord

[sanjay-kv]

@avikaagarwalll Mentors list can be found here https://github.com/GSSoC24/Contributor

[arun0r7]

Hi. I had applied for contributor last week. Still didn't receive any confirmation mail. Kindly help.

[PiyushG29]

You can contact to the Core Team members on their social media handles and/or ask your query in the discord server. Someone will definitely help you.
Regards

[pankajgawade]

Didn't receiveed the confirmation email yet May 11 Please Kindly Help
Name : Pankaj Gawade
Email id - [email protected]

[sanjay-kv]

@pankajgawade
Write your mail ID here
#135

[Parshav20sharma]

Didn't receiveed the confirmation email yet Please Kindly Help.
Name :- Parshav Sharma
[email protected]

[okaditya84]

Comment your Name and Email here: https://github.com/GSSoC24/Contributor/discussions/96

[Parshav20sharma]

Name :- Parshav Sharma
EMail:- [email protected]

[UtkarshBirla28]

Guys what is issue number ??
Mene PR kra abhi toh admin said kindly mention your issue number
Wht is issue number ?

[aakashsharma003]

@UtkarshBirla28 whenever an issue is raised on GitHub, it is assigned a number. People work on resolving this issue and raise a Pull Request (PR). To link this PR to the issue, you need to include the issue number in the PR description. This helps the repository author understand which issue you have worked on.

Steps to find your issue number

1. Write # first, then a list will appear:
   

2. Write a word from the title of your issue, like "Online" in my case. Then use the "up" and "down" arrow keys to navigate to the specific issue and press enter to select:
   

For linking an issue to a PR, use:

• close
• closes
• closed
• fix
• fixes
• fixed
• resolve
• resolves
• resolved

For example:

Markdown Syntax

It will appear as this:

By using these keywords, your issue is linked to your PR, like below:

If you find this helpful, please mark this as answered. If you have any further queries, feel free to ask.

[UtkarshBirla28]

Yes i got it thankyou.