On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 21:10 +0200, Cruceru Calin wrote:
Hi, Firstly I want to thank you German for you reply. The first steps for a beginner are a little bit hard and it can become even discouraging without support. Secondly, I will take into consideration your advice and I will choose a specific project to start looking into and I will come back with specific questions about its development.
Hi, You are welcome. Don't forget to use "Reply all" when you reply to a mailing list (it is considered a good practice). Thus, everybody get aware of any acknowledgement, or can contribute with different approaches and whatnot, or other people might see benefits in your question/answers as well. Everybody win. Happy hacking! [I am Cc'ing back gnome-love list]
2014-02-20 21:03 GMT+02:00 Germán Póo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org>:
On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 00:41 +0200, Cruceru Calin wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> I'm a first year computer-science romanian student and I
would like to
> start contributing to Gnome.
>
> Firstly, I have to say that I haven't decided yet upon a
project on which
> to contribute, that is why I'm writing to this mailing-list
since I expect
> to get more general advice here.
>
> As far as my knowledgement is concerned, I am well-versed in
C and C++,
> bash scripting and I'm a beginner in javascript. I'm also
very passionate
> about Linux and Gnome in particular. Taking in consideration
this, I want
> you to suggest me a couple of projects which have as
requirements these
> programming languages and where I can find easy bugs to fix
for the
> beginning.
A good strategy is to start contributing to application that
you usually
use. Having a good understanding on how the application works
it is
very helpful to understand the code base later (things will
start making
sense sooner than later). In addition, it will be easier for
you to
spot bugs and annoyances.
> I already read the wiki pages and installed the needed
development tools.
> In fact, right now the jhbuild script is running and it
seems promising.
>
> I have one more explicit question to end with: is there a
method to import
> all project's sources in an IDE ( anjuta I guess is most
used ) ? I mean in
> one step or somehow and have it organized in the project
within the IDE as
> they are in the project's directory.
There is a diversity of editors used in GNOME. You fill find
developers
using emacs, vim, gedit, anjuta or even eclipse.
I am not versed in Anjuta myself, but my understanding is that
you can
import one project at a time. Likely you can get a
comprehensive answer
in #anjuta (irc.gnome.org) or in Anjuta's mailing list
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/anjuta-list
Welcome aboard!
-- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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