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Intro:

We want for a user to receive an email when a new mentorship request is received. Find more information about the context on issue #264.

Prerequisite:

• Have a GitHub account
• Know how to use git
• Setup and run the project on your local development environment

Steps:

• Create a copy of the project into your account GitHub by forking systers/mentorship-backend project.
• Clone the project onto your local development environment
• [Optional] Create a new branch to make your changes
• Create a new feature, to send an email from the backend to the user which received a new mentorship request.
  • Hint: there's a feature already that allows the backend to send an email when a user needs to get the email verified. Here's app/api/email_utils.py where this send function is. Feel free to be creative with your solution.
• Commit your change through the interface using our Commit message Style Guide.
• Submit a Pull Request, targeting gci-dev branch, following the template provided in the description.

Resources:

• If you need help or get lost, post a query to our #coding-backend-tasks stream on Zulip.
• Learn more about mentorship relation concept in this Mentorship Relation Wiki Documentation
• Pull request template at this link.
• Commit message Style Guide can be found here.
• How to fork, clone and setup remotes the project into your account wiki page can be found here.

Work Submission:

Submit a link to Pull Request (PR) created with the new feature.