From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Apr 13 2002 - 04:38:44 EDT
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Roshan Mathews wrote:
> 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.
1. Although I was very experienced in C, I knew next to nothing about
C++ so AbiWord has been a huge education for me.
2. GTK+ - talk about jumping in at the deep end. Why do you want to learn
GTK+? Just for AbiWord? or for some other project?
3. You seem to have done documentation stuff in the past. Would you be
interested in working on AbiWord's documentation? What languages do you
speak?
> So I'd like to start with someone giving me the smaller parts of
> the code to write or something. Is this possible?
I don't think it's possible, really. You are the only good judge of your
abilities. One thought, however: since you do documentation work, would
you be interested in working on DocBook import/export? There seems to be a
lot of demand for DocBook support but none of the developers has had time
to do it properly...
If you are up for this, I suggest doing it as a plugin for the 1.0
release - after AbiWord 1.0 is released the CVS sources will be changing
rapidly and this will be very confusing for everyone. If, however, you
develop plugins for AbiWord 1.0 you don't need to use CVS at all, just get
the source tar ball for 1.0 and work from there :-) and all those people
who use AbiWord 1.0 will be able to use the plugin.
This is just an idea.
> Seriously, I'd really like to join the project.
It's not really a question of "joining" the project. Just get to know
AbiWord, bit by bit, submit the occasional patch, and once it becomes
clear that you know what you're doing then someone will give you CVS
access etc.
Regards, Frank
ps. If you feel like some topical insanity, hang out on IRC :-)
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
"No, she really likes me. She told me I look like Britney Spears, and why
would you say that to somebody you don't like?"
--- Elle Woods
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