Re: Getting involved with conduit

[Mats Taraldsvik <mats taraldsvik bickeringleague net>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 00:30 -0300, Alexandre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got involved in Conduit fairly recently too. I started by
> writing/fixing the Rhythmbox dataprovider and some parts of the iPod
> module (this later on as part of Google Summer of Code). 
> That is a pretty good starting point, make it work for something you
> care. 

Yes, I agree. I guess I could look up bugs related to my listed
interests. The reason for this mail, though, was the lack of gnome-love
bugs / entry points. That's why I asked for pointers to get started,
bugs that were "easy" to fix for someone without prior knowledge of the
code base.

> I'm not sure about the Evolution module status, but there are some
> recent work on that area, maybe John Carr could explain it better.
> 
That'd be brilliant!

> But something I missed when I started working on Conduit was the
> developer page in the homepage:
> http://conduit-project.org/wiki/Development
> That is a good way to learn about the Conduit code. Just be careful
> about the configuration dialog code, it changed recently and the docs
> wasnt updated.

I looked at this, and it is very handy. However, the «get started with
your first patch/bug/etc.» is lacking, unfortunately. Perhaps I could
add something to the wiki, if I get as far as a patch? :)

> 
> Btw, how can I edit the Conduit wiki? We should also update our API
> docs at http://doc.conduit-project.org/conduit/ it's fairly old and
> outdated. I started to work on some Sphinx based documentation at my
> github account, although I didnt get far, it would be great if we
> could migrate to it (we could probably do some automated scripts to
> migrate).

Documentation created with sphinx is very nice! I created some for my
own project. Examples can be written as doctests, and tested with
sphinx-build -b doctest! Handy to ensure that the examples always
work.. :)
> 
Mats

> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 18:01, Mats Taraldsvik
> <mats taraldsvik bickeringleague net> wrote:
>         Any interest in new contributors at all? :)
>         
>         I am not asking for mentoring, just some advice on bugs (or
>         other stuff)
>         that might be suited for someone who wants to start
>         contributing to
>         Conduit...
>         
>         
>         On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 23:43 +0200, Mats Taraldsvik wrote:
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         > Are there any "favourite" entry points for getting started
>         on conduit
>         > development? I didn't find many gnome-love bugs in
>         bugzilla ...
>         >
>         > Actually, if there are any (easy/beginner) tasks related to
>         syncing a
>         > phone (contacts, notes, tasks, calendar) to evolution, I'd
>         love to help!
>         >
>         > Mats Taraldsvik
>         >
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