Making an open source contrib

[pluuto19]

Hi. I've been using Echo for nearly an year and have enjoyed my time with it. Lately, I've been thinking about getting some exposure to software that's used by a large number of people and so naturally, I thought about making contribution(s) to something that I am using on the daily. I checked the repo out, couldn't find anything regarding making PRs or any good first issue (do note that it will be my first ever proper open source contrib. so I am a bit anxious on that part).

Could I get some guidance with this? Thanks!

[aldas]

Well, the life of an open-source maintainer isn't all that exciting. Most of the time you're not writing code at all, but doing the unglamorous work of reading issues, reviewing PRs, and often politely turning down ideas.

On top of my head.

1. There is a issue regarding binder and default values and multiple source Echo binder body deserialization blanket replaces all data #2857
2. You could try to implement different Routers - for example one that supports regexp or one that internally creates route trees based for each method type (droppping 405 support simplifies the solution)

although these are things that are not guaranteed to be accepted but give you insight the harder parts of Echo.

[aldas]

3. Third-party assessment of the Echo website content compared with other framework websites, including whether we are missing examples from certain domains. I was thinking that we need better - more complete example for CSRF for example.

This is one of those not that glamorous tasks.

[pluuto19]

I'll be honest, I am looking for the more glamourous parts of open source contributions. Thankyou for replying, I'll look into that issue and CSRF examples for the Echo site.