Re: How to contribute to Nmap

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:24:04PM -0400, Wooyoung Chung wrote:
> My name is Wooyoung Chung, and I'm currently graduate student
> concentrating Digital Forensics in James Madison University. I've
> used nmap for a while to play with it such as do some port scanning
> on random website and tried to find a vulnerability if any exist.
> What I would like to do for now is gaining some real experience on
> open source and contributing starts from bug fixing. By all mean,
> I'm looking forward to join the developer community and work on it
> actively. I was looking for bug tracker for nmap but I couldn't find
> it.
> It will be great if I can find a mentor who can help me out actively
> for contributing nmap.

Since you are a student, you should know about the Summer of Code:

http://nmap.org/soc/
http://nmap.org/soc/GeneralRequirements.html
http://nmap.org/soc/apply.html
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/nmap

We don't have a bug tracker but we keep track of things to do in a
versioned file:

https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/todo/nmap.txt

A good place to start is by looking at the source code at a high level
in nmap_main.cc and seeing what functions get called. The easiest way to
get involved in development these days is in the scripting engine,
http://nmap.org/book/nse.html.

David Fifield
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