# Want to work on issue #17329, need help to proceed.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/want-to-work-on-issue-17329-need-help-to-proceed/23701>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [February 10, 2017, 7:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/want-to-work-on-issue-17329-need-help-to-proceed/23701 "2017-02-10T07:39:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ankit\_Yadav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Ankit\_Yadav](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ankit_Yadav)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 7:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/want-to-work-on-issue-17329-need-help-to-proceed/23701/1 "2017-02-10T07:39:07Z")

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HI everyone, I am Ankit, a final year computer engineering student. I wanted to work on the issue [#17329](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/17329). I am familiar with python. I will appreciate any guidance to solve this issue.

Regards,  
Ankit Yadav.

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/want-to-work-on-issue-17329-need-help-to-proceed/23701/2 "2017-02-10T19:47:28Z")

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The file in case is  
[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/env.py](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/env.py)

The issue here is that this plugin has worked this way for a long time  
so changing the default behaviour is not recommended. Adding a new  
parameter to raise an error on missing env var or return a specific  
marker would be the recommended approach.