Re: [Gimp-developer] Offering help

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif shlomifish org>]

Hi Brendan!

Welcome aboard.

On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:24:51 -0400
Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2020-06-19 at 17:39 +0000, Brendan via gimp-developer-list
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > With everything that is going on, I have found myself with a lot of
> > free time and would like to help with development. I have experience
> > in software engineering but have never worked on an open source
> > project. Please let me know what I can do to help.  
>
> Best is to start by building gimp from source. If you run into
> difficulties (this is not uncommon, don't worry) or if you succeed,
> then find an IRC client and join irc.gnome.org in the #gimp channel
> where the developers tend to be found.
>
> Liam

Sounds like good advice and I'd like to note that I have created a tool to
automate part of that task:

https://metacpan.org/release/App-gimpgitbuild

I'd be happy to hear any success or failure stories with using it.

On a more general note, I have provided some guidance for people who wish to
become FOSS contributors here:

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https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/how-to-start-contributing/

Good luck!

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