Re: [gnome-love] Beginner advice

[Hashem <hnasarat gmail com>]

Yes jhbuild is pretty terrible for newcomers, but what better way is
there to work on in-development code?

On 03/04/2013 03:47 AM, Michael Hasselmann wrote:
> 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
>
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