Re: Getting involved in meld development

[David Rabel <David Rabel NoreSoft com>]

Hi Scott,

thank you for that hint. I'll try to answer your questions. :)

> As for specific questions, what is your programming experience?

I've mainly written software for microcontrollers in C professionally. I
have a little bit experience in C++, Java and Python. I would say in
this languages I know enough to look things up. I know the basics of
GTK+ as well.

> What is your OS?

Debian 8.1

> Have you worked on any other open source software?

Not too much. Except for smaller patches I wrote the small tool
heating-master [1] for a home automation project [2].

> Are you familiar with git?

Yes.


[1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/heating-master
[2] http://www.noresoft.com/heating_control_en.html


Kind Regards,
  David



On 27.08.2015 23:35, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 1:36 PM, David Rabel <David Rabel noresoft com> wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I'm using meld a lot and like it a lot. I'm a software developer and I
> > want to get involved in meld development to return something to the
> > community. Is there something like a point to start or easyhacks to get
> > into the code easier?
> >
> > And btw, there is one feature that I really really miss in meld and
> > that's to collapse equal lines in file diff. (Or did I just not find out
> > how it works yet?)
> > I don't know if you want such a feature or not. But if so and after
> > getting to know the code a littler more I would love to work on
> > implementing something like this.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> >   David
>
> Hi David,
>
> I'm not involved in meld development, but I'm involved in other open
> source projects. First, as a meld user, thanks for your interest in
> improving meld! Second, I think it's great that you have a goal in
> mind, which is the feature that you described. Third, when wanting to
> join the development of an open source project, I think it's
> interesting (but not necessary) to talk a little bit about your
> background. As for specific questions, what is your programming
> experience? What is your OS? Have you worked on any other open source
> software? Are you familiar with git?
>
> Best of luck,
>
> Scott
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