New Contributor Guidelines

[Omswastik-11]

Hi @kunaals , @jychp and @achantavy and other maintainers of Cartography . I am Om . I am a pre-final year undergrad student . I have good Python programming experience I want to contribute to cartography and learn more about CNCF projects but it seem there are no new contributor guide in these repos can you look into it ? It seems there are no community channels also . If there are any good-first-issue you can assign me .

Thanks for your time . looking forward to contribute

[jychp]

Hello and welcome to our community,

I’m a bit puzzled by your message:
• The README already provides initial guidance on how to contribute: https://github.com/cartography-cncf/cartography?tab=readme-ov-file#contributing
• That README points to comprehensive documentation: https://cartography-cncf.github.io/cartography/dev/developer-guide.html
• You can also refer to AGENTS.md, which contains several hundred lines of instructions
• The README references the Cartography Slack channel on the CNCF Slack workspace: https://cartography-cncf.github.io/cartography/dev/developer-guide.html

As for issues, there is a dedicated label and it’s already used on multiple issues:
https://github.com/cartography-cncf/cartography/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22good%20first%20issue%22

I think there’s already a substantial amount of material to get started. That said, if after going through all of this you still feel something is missing, I’m happy to hear your feedback.