FR: mentored projects

[fdschmidt93]

Hi all,

since core now engages in mentored projects, I was thinking telescope should maybe follow suit. To that end, here's a list of fixes/features/ideas loosely (and hopefully adequately) sorted from easy to hard the nvim-telescope team is happy to provide guidance on in a PR. Guidance means just open an issue or a first draft PR, lay out how you want to tackle the problem (further) and we'll do our best to help.

Topic	Headline	Complexity	Prelim. Assignee	Relevant issues	Description
UI	dynamic_preview_title truncate on left side	Low		#1167	dynamic_preview_title needs to be truncatable on the left so the end of the path can be displayed
Feat	Composable LSP finders	Low-mid		#713	Provide action that bridges selected entry and other lsp finders/actions
Feat	Picker for lua functions	Mid		Mentioned on reddit	lua fn picker over _G analogous to builtin.commands
UI	Highlight match in preview	Mid		#933 #1042
Feat	Picker for tabpages	Mid-high		Mentioned on gitter	Pick and preview tabpages; complexity primarily from previewer
Feat	Return values from picker	Mid-high		#1159	Prior knowledge with (plenary) async recommended
Feat	Keep Telescope open	High		comment	Telescope as fuzzy quickfix list? Maybe needs discussion
Feat	Combining pickers	Very High		#213

I'll do my best to keep this list up-to-date.

Here's how you'd start

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b my_contribution)
3. Make your changes
4. Stage and commit your Changes (git add -u && git commit -m 'Add my contribution')
5. Push to the Branch (git push origin my_contribution)
6. Open a Pull Request by going to the project webpage; it'll then suggest to you to open a PR on telescope

Optionally, you can lay out your solution in the respective issues or a new feature request issue.

[TheLeoP]

Hi.

I would like to start helping with some of this problems, but I'm a CS student and I have barely used github to manage my personal config repo, so I'm very lost about what should I do. I'm not even sure if this is the right place to ask for help about this 😅.

I have watched TJ's video about making a PR to Neovim, though. So I think I have to say I want to help on an issue (#1182 for example), clone the Telescope repo and start working on that (?).

Sorry for all the questions.

[fdschmidt93]

Sorry for all the questions.

No need to apologize; everybody was starting out at some point!

Here's roughly how you'd start.

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b my_contribution)
3. Make your changes
4. Stage and commit your Changes (git add -u && git commit -m 'Add my contribution')
5. Push to the Branch (git push origin my_contribution)
6. Open a Pull Request by going to the project webpage; it'll then suggest to you to open a PR on telescope

Let me know in case you run into any troubles; I think #1182 hopefully already largely lays out how to tackle the issue, if you have more questions don't hesitate to ping me there!

[max397574]

I'll try working on the bottom_pane preview width @l-kershaw