New contributor interested in pgRouting for GSoC 2027

Hi everyone,

I’m Aditya. I recently merged my first open-source PR (fixed a layout bug in GeoServer’s style editor), and I’m now looking to get involved with pgRouting, aiming toward a GSoC 2027 proposal.

I’ve cloned the repo and I’m getting a local build set up. I’d like to start with a small, well-scoped issue to properly learn the codebase — if there’s a good starter task you’d recommend, or something not currently listed on the public tracker, I’d appreciate a pointer.

Happy to share more about my background if useful. Looking forward to contributing.

Thanks,
Aditya

I always recommend looking at the workshop just to get a feel of how pgrouting is used setup and have a new users perspective of what is unclear etc.

Typo and grammar fixes are always welcome.

As far as good first issues for pgRouting goes I’m not seeing any of those at the moment @cvvergara any suggestions?

Hi @robe,

Following up on your suggestion - I went through the pgRouting workshop end-to-end using real OSM data (Mysuru city) loaded into a local pgrouting_dev database, rather than just skimming through it. I worked through data.rst and graphs.rst, ran the exercises (vertex extraction, connected components, building the vehicle/walking network views), and got a real feel for how functions like pgr_extractVertices and pgr_connectedComponents behave on an actual dataset, not just toy data.

Along the way I picked up a batch of typos, broken RST link formatting, and an exercise-numbering inconsistency across the workshop files, so I opened a single PR covering all of them:

Would appreciate a look whenever you get a chance. Also still keen on a good-first-issue if one turns up — happy to hear from @cvvergara too, as you mentioned.

Thanks for pointing me here — it was a solid way to get properly oriented before jumping into the main codebase.

Thanks,
Aditya