As I continue my journey through open source for another semester, there are more things that I want to explore and hence use this post to set goals for the semester.
First, I want to continue working on the Searchbar for Telescope. So far, I put up the backend of the API for Elasticsearch. My goal now is to create the UI for the search bar so that we can have more refined searches.
My main goal is to keep working away in React. This may not sound so exciting - however, I want to become more comfortable and proficient in React. Whether this means getting more front or back end code in - it is something I want to add to my resume and never hesitate to answer "How comfortable are you with React?" in an interview.
I am very comfortable with front end work and don't have much exposure to back end services and such. However, I am alright with taking up more front end work, as it will slowly introduce me to more areas of the repository. This is another goal - to become more familiar with the code in the repository for Telescope.
There's a lot to work on in the repository, and as a result there are many services and dependencies. Just as I got involved in Elasticsearch and nginx, I want to get involved with more! This was honestly one of the most scary things I did last semester. For nginx - I had no idea where to start. The change was literally 4 lines of code, but I learned so much. Elasticsearch was a bit more code, and again, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, however after reading A LOT of the documentation, I went from playing with one file, to understanding there are more files involved.
I also want to have better time management. Yes I work better under pressure, but there's no reason to put the "pressure" on the deadlines. I should set my own deadlines before the due date and work towards that.
Lastly, as most of the students in this round have taken the previous course, I hope to work on an issue with another student(s). I want to be more involved and share ideas with others as we tackle issues.
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