[gnome-love] Another Intro and question

[michaeld senet com au]

Hi all,

My name is Michael Davies, and as you would guess from being on this list, I am
a GNOME zealot.  I hack code for a living, but not GNOME, so this interest forms
a big part of my away-from-my-day-job activities.  I'm helping out on the GNOME
web page team, which is another interest of mine.  Been following gnome-devel,
gnome-hackers-readonly & others, read Havoc's book and done a little
prototyping, but haven't contributed back anything yet on the programming side. 
So I'd like to learn how to get involved and maybe obtain that mythical status
of GNOME hacker one day :-)

Now for my first question...  I really like the packaging that Ximian do with
GNOME and that's my preferred desktop.  How easy is it to run a parallel stream
of components built from CVS alongside the rock-solid-stable Ximian RPMs?  Say
for example I'd like to fix some of the problems with evolution which really
annoy me.  Can I just grab evolution from CVS, start hacking and building on top
of Ximian GNOME 1.4?  Or do I need to install the latest and greatest unstable
gdk, gtk, bonobo, gconf, gnome print etc to work on evolution?  You can replace
evolution with gnome-games, or gnome-core, or indeed anything else, I guess what
I'm asking is do I need to go to a completely unstable, everything built from
CVS HEAD, so that I can do some hacking?

Thanks in advance,

Michael...
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michaeld senet com au
I am dumb, most of the time I'm just acting smart.


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