Re: [gnome-women] Require guidance to start with gnome-development

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

Hi Dheepikaa,

You can review different projects on

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove/Mentors
https://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2012/Ideas

and decide which one you are most interested in working on, contact a mentor for it, and ask them for a suggestion for a simple bug you can fix. This page gives you more ideas about how to find the first bug to fix:

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove/FindingTasks

For example, you can look at all the bugs marked with a "gnome-love" keyword (meaning they are good for beginners and the person who filed the bug can often help you fix it), sorted with the ones most recently filed first here:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=keywords%3Agnome-love

As for proposing a new feature, you can always do so by filing a bug in Bugzilla for the relevant module. As far as working on new features, it's best to first start out by working on the features that are already agreed-upon and designed, to get a better sense of the project. Here are some resources that can help you find such features:

https://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2012/Ideas
https://live.gnome.org/EveryDetailMatters
https://live.gnome.org/Design/Priorities
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards
https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps

Bash is the command line that you get in the gnome-terminal and it is not a GNOME project itself. So adding undo functionality to the command line would not be a project within GNOME. Adding a comprehensive undo feature is likely very complex, which is why it is not currently part of bash or any major terminal. 
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html

Hope this helps and please let us know if you have questions any time!

Marina

----- Original Message -----
> From: "dheepikaa natarajan" <ndheepikaa gmail com>
> To: "Neha" <ndoijode gmail com>
> Cc: gnome-women-list mail gnome org
> Sent: Friday, March 9, 2012 12:05:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [gnome-women] Require guidance to start with gnome-development
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Thank you for the support.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Neha < ndoijode gmail com > wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> It would be better to go through the list of GNOME projects and
> select a few to start with. [1]
> Build the source code of the project you would like to work on using
> JHbuild.[2]
> 
> I'm trying to setup the build environment now. I'm getting through a
> lot of obstacles. In the mean time I'm going through the code i
> downloaded.
> 
> 
> Look for a simple bug on GNOME Bugzilla.[3]
> Write a patch for the bug, join the IRC of the relevant project to
> seek help.
> 
> 
> How do I get to know simple bugs. It's a huge list there. I don't
> know which one to pick. Can you guide me through that.
> 
> 
> 
> Then look for features in the project's roadmap and try contributing.
> 
> [1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/
> [2] https://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild
> [3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/
> 
> Cheers,
> Neha
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:24 PM, dheepikaa natarajan <
> ndheepikaa gmail com > wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm Dheepikaa, doing my 4th semester in Computer Science and
> Engineering. I'm interested in contributing to gnome development. I
> want to get started with it. I'm familiar with a couple of gnome
> applications. It would be great if anyone could help me in getting
> started ( like what do I start with? Any small bugs that I could fix
> or small piece of code i could work on?? ) I also want to know if I
> could propose any new feature.
> 
> One thing I wanted to do was undo a command in terminal when I was
> initially working with Ubuntu. I used to make many mistakes (like
> changing the PATH variable) that resulted in many crashes.
> It would be of great help if anyone could guide me to start with
> gnome development. Thank you.
> 
> --
> Dheepikaa N
> 2nd Year Dual Degree || Computer Science & Engineering
> Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
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> Dheepikaa N
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> Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
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