Re: Interested in development

[Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com>]

Hi Nitin!

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:13 AM, nitin chadha
<contact nitinchadha gmail com> wrote:
> hey all,
>
> my name is nitin , and i am from Bangalore, India.
> i am an open source enthusiast and am doing my
> under graduation in computers.
>
> i am good at programming in c, c++, c#, python and javascript.
> i would like to contribute to gnome-shell. how do i proceed.

A good place to start is to look through the open bugs on bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=product%3Agnome-shell

Find one that nobody else is working on and dive in!

> i have seen various pages on gnome site and one thing i must do is
> to build gnome from source. afterwards ?
>
> a bit about me .... i have been coding for almost 3-4 years now in various
> programming languages ( from among i mentioned above. ) i have made various
> sites
> using dot net framework and python ( eg : www.tnpuiet.com ). i have also
> contributed to
> python and have spoken at pycon india 2011  (
> http://urtalk.kpoint.in/kapsule/gcc-0b356a25-fdd0-4068-8bc8-ea552f6a6c61 ; ).
> i love to code and contribute to opensource. have also started an open
> source club at my
> university by name of Panjab University Linux user group
> ( http://groups.google.com/group/pulug  ;)
>
> i got into gnome while developing an application for gnome.
> i am still in middle of making it and have been reading the documentation
> and samples.
>
> hoping for great pointers
>
> --
> Regards,
> Nitin Chadha
>
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Sam