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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