It’s week three of Hacktoberfest! Last week went pretty smoothly after I was able to find a issue to work on. This week instead of spending all that time looking for a new project to work on I decided to work on the same project. A quick recap of the project, Enterprise Policy Generator is a Firefox extension that allows enterprises to quickly and easily generate configuration files. Last week I worked on adding a policy configuration that would disable the ability to view passwords as you were typing them in. This was to make things a bit more secure by not allowing others to simply look over your shoulder and see your password. This week there was a new issue to set your browser to default to browsing in private mode.
Unlike last week I was not going into the issue blind. I had a bit of background knowledge about that project that I hoped would help me complete it faster. But even with that knowledge I knew the best strategy was to ask questions to get clarification before beginning work.
Again the maintainer of this project was extremely helpful. If I had gone with my initial plan I would have gone down the wrong path. Thankful with the clarification that the maintainer provided I was able to add the new property to the existing Search Engine policy.
In addition to the code to add the property I had to add the new description for the property. For all the languages I could not translate the message into I still had to add the default English message, these will hopefully be translated in the future by other contributors.
For my issue next week I am hoping to work on a bigger project maintained by a large company. Finding those has been a bit difficult but I am hopeful I will be able to find one.
Original Repo: cadeyrn/enterprise-policy-generator
My Fork: varshannagarajan/enterprise-policy-generator
The Issue: https://github.com/cadeyrn/enterprise-policy-generator/issues/111
My Pull Request: https://github.com/cadeyrn/enterprise-policy-generator/pull/113
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