Re: [gnome-love] Beginner advice

[Michael Hasselmann <michael taschenorakel de>]

On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 10:50 +0100, Sebastian Geiger wrote:
> You can take a look at git.gnome.org and pick a module there. Since we dont know what you are interested in 
> its difficult to suggest a module. You could take a look at Gtk+ or glib if you are interested in improving 
> the core plattform. Or look at gnome-shell, gnome-panel, mutter or metacity if you want to work on the 
> frontend. 
>
> The gnome games might be a good start too. 
>
> For a quick start you should become familiar with jhbuild so you can build and run the modules.

Could we perhaps stop giving beginners the advice to use jhbuild? It's a
complex tool and things often break, which can be frustrating. On a
modern enough & well maintained distro, there is usually no need for
jhbuild if you only want to hack on some projects (and not the whole
Gnome stack).

ciao Michael