New contributor interested in helping Qubes OS

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been exploring Qubes OS and I really appreciate the project’s strong focus on security and thoughtful design. It’s impressive how much effort the community puts into maintaining high standards.

I’m new here and interested in contributing. I’ve read the contributing guidelines and would be grateful for suggestions on a good first issue or area where I can start helping.

Looking forward to learning and contributing.

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Hi,

great! What are your skills? We need help for code, testing, documentation or helping the community. There is work for every levels and skills when volunteering.

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I’m also interested for testing, documentation and help the community

Could you explain what do you mean by skills exactly ? Like how much knowledge we have in network , cybersecurity ?

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Some ideas:

  • check needs-issue and needs-doc tags in the forum and see if there is some issue that you can open/fix or some contribution you might add to the documentation
  • pick any of the good first issues and make a pull request to fix it
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Yes

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Updating the HCL via GitHub:

I can handle prettifying any malformed topics in the HCL Reports category for easier readability, but someone else with a GitHub account has to commit to the repository itself.

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I’m not sure if this is what you’re referring to, but in case it’s not (and in case there are others reading this thread who haven’t seen it), we have a page on how to contribute:

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I could do it if you want i will only need to learn how to use github correctly but it’s not that hard to learn

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Anyone can contribute to Qubes, even if they do not have these skills prior.
Look at the guide to contributing:
you will see many areas where you can contribute, whatever your
skills or knowledge. And even if you think you have no particular skills
you can contribute by using Qubes, and reporting when things go wrong,
things that could be improved, or features that are missing. And, of
course, spread the word about Qubes - that’s a great contribution for
everyone to make.

I never presume to speak for the Qubes team.
When I comment in the Forum I speak for myself.

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list of unprocessed HCL entries

It would help greatly if someone would simply collect all of these HCL reports into a folder and ZIP it. Ideally even doing a first pass over them. I could then review and check-in.

(I’ll be offline for the next 24 hours)

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Not sure what you mean by “doing a first pass over them”, but I collected the files.

Unimportant

By the way for .zip files the forum says “Sorry, the file you are trying to upload is not authorized (authorized extensions: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, heic, heif, yml, yaml, cpiogz, log, gz).”

So I renambed .zip to .gz.

HCL.yml.gz (313.4 KB)

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You’re more faster than me i was going to upload this one to ask if it’s perfect or not
HCL-Lenovo-ThinkPad-P53.yml (1.1 KB)

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Note that while I was prettifying the HCL Reports category in the background over the last several months, I did not give much attention to the Mailing Lists category for other HCL reports, so some may have slipped through. Here is an example post from the mailing list I manually processed due to a malformed response:

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