Re: [gedit-list] gedit developers recruitment

[James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu>]

Hi James,

Thanks for your interest.  Here is some reading material:

http://pobox.com/~hp/hacking.html
http://www.gnome.org/~chema/gnome-love/compiling_faq.html

And here are some rough steps to follow:

1)  Get stable gnome2 on your system some way (packages, sources, etc.)
2)  Get gedit from CVS (instructions on page above)
3)  Write lots-o-code.  Send patch to Paolo, and he will review it and
possibly commit it to CVS.

It is quite common for new hackers to have their patches bounced several
times before finally being accepted.  Don't be discouraged by it, it
happens to everyone (or was it just me?!!).  Most maintainers (esp. Paolo)
are always happy to tell you what they would like changed, etc.  Once you
get a better feel for the coding style and design of the project, things
will move more smoothly.

Thanks,
James

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, James Drabb wrote:

> Hello group,
>
> I just read your "recruitment" email on gnome-love and wanted to help
> out.
> I have been programming for about 5 years with C,C++ on windows and I
> have
> been using Linux for about 3 years.  I have done some Linux development
> at
> work in C so I am not a newbie to the GNU tool chain.  I have been
> wanting
> to help out with the GNOME project for some time now and decided that
> Gedit
> would be a great start : )
>
> I may need some tips on setting up a nice and efficient dev environment
> on
> Linux since 98% of my development in on windoze.  I have an LFS system I
> set
> up and a Redhat 7.3 system.  A overview of the gedit dev cycle would be
> great
> (i.e. check out from cvs, make changes, preferred diff command, send
> patch
> to joe blow, etc.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Drabb
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