Re: [gedit-list] gedit developers recruitment

[Paolo Maggi <maggi athena polito it>]

Hi Jim,

> 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 : )
Great... you are on board then.

> 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.)
We are working in CVS HEAD now
(read http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html for info)

Preferred diff command: "cvs -z3 diff -u"

The patches should be sent to me and to the gedit-list

For the moment, I will commit your patches for you.

Ciao
Paolo