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Re: How to contribute
From: Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:27:06 -0600
Ram Raju wrote:
Hello All, I'm a student from school, working on networking course. As a part of my course work I get a chance to work on any network hacking tool. I've gone through the Nmap briefly and found it very interesting to get hands on experience with and also for contributing something to it. I'm looking forward to join the developer community and work on actively. I was searching for the to-do list (or) the features that are planned to include in future versions but haven't been assigned to anyone, etc. It will be great help for me if somebody could point to the tasks that could be worked for future releases.
That's great! I've been contributing to Nmap for 2 years this month and it's been a great experience. I don't know if you've done it yet or not, but actually joining nmap-dev[1] is a good start as you'll get all kinds of development posts and bug reports (which you can look into and try to fix). When I started, I just started slowly looking over the codebase and trying to learn how everything fit together. For a long time I just sent little patches for little fixes and things I noticed while going over it. If you know any Python, working on Zenmap (the GUI) is a good place to start. Reading the nmap-dev archives at seclists.org for past bug reports or patches that haven't been committed is a good thing. You can test patches and then send your comments, good or bad. You can check-out Nmap's source using Subversion[2], or you can download one of the source tarballs[3].
Thank you, looking forward. Best, Raju.
Good luck! Kris Katterjohn [1] http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev [2] http://nmap.org/install/index.html#inst-svn [3] http://nmap.org/download.html _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
Current thread:
- How to contribute Ram Raju (Feb 17)
- Re: How to contribute Kris Katterjohn (Feb 17)
- Re: How to contribute Diman Todorov (Feb 17)
- Re: How to contribute Kris Katterjohn (Feb 17)