On 12/23/2013 03:39 PM, prabhdeep singh wrote:
I want to start contributing to the open source community, but I do
not where to begin.
Your community's cause seems great!
So I would love to start but I am absolutely clueless as to where to
begin.
I have a background in C++ and algorithmic operations.
Any help would be appreciated!
I think a good way to start contributing to the project is compiling
Mixxx from sources on
your machine. There are tutorials on how you can achieve this, depending
on your operating
system:
* Linux-based: http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/compiling_on_linux
* Windows: http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/compiling_on_windows
* Mac OS X: http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/compiling_on_os_x
After that, it is useful to set up an IDE for Qt/C++. I use Qt Creator,
but Eclipse is just
as good.
* Set up Qt Creator: http://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/qtcreator
* Set up Eclipse: http://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/eclipse
As soon as you have set up your IDE, you may want to learn a bit about
how to use git in order
to write a patch for Mixxx (how to fork and clone a repository, how to
create a new branch and
how to issue a pull request) --> http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/using_git
Finally, Mixxx is using Launchpad as bug tracker. Make a launchpad
account, search for a bug
(here is a list of bugs marked as "easy"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bugs?field.tag=easy).
Assign yourself to that bug and start hacking on it. Don't forget to ask
for help if you get stuck.
The community is very friendly (I learned that myself :D ).
An overview of the bugfix workflow is here:
http://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/bugfix_workflow.
Hope this helps!
--
Nicu Badescu
<http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/compiling_on_os_x>
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