From: Roshan Mathews (roshan@gamebox.net)
Date: Sat Apr 13 2002 - 02:36:02 EDT
Hello Frank and others,
: The way I started was to go through Bugzilla's open bugs
: looking for ones that seemed (a) interesting, and (b)
: vaguely relevant to my expertise (such as it was/is).
That will be bugzilla.abisource.com right? The problem is that I
have no particular area of expertise, (I thought I knew C pretty
well but had to revise my opinion after trying to work through
K&R). I am struggling through the GTK+ tutorial too.
So I'd like to start with someone giving me the smaller parts of
the code to write or something. Is this possible?
The problem is I have no idea how this system works. I mean I
don't know how to find the bugs I'm looking for unless I know the
entire source, and I really won't know how to read thousands of
line of AbiWord code? Helpful ideas, anyone?
: The next step is frightening, because you realize just how
: *big* AbiWord is. Try to ignore as much of it as possible.
: Tunnel vision is your ally.
So I should download the latest source, right? But since I can't
use CVS, how do I find the latest sources?
: When at long last you've figured out how stupid I/we've been
: - which is not unlikely - create a patch (ask how, if
: uncertain) and send it to us.
OK, I'll make a patch after I read the source. (A) If the source,
is huge, I won't be able to read it right? So then how do I find
the bugs? (B) I'll read the info pages on diff and patch, will
that be enough?
: If we start swearing at you, there's a problem - though not
: necessarily a fatal one. It's unlikely, however.
:)
: It's a big project, and there are only a few developers. If
: you're determined to help, there will be plenty to do.
I am determined, 'cos I'm Pop-Eye the sailor man. OK, I am not
very crazy, so I can work. :)
Seriously, I'd really like to join the project.
: Ciao, Frank
Regards,
Roshan
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