Other things that might help (but I have not managed to become a developer (so far?), so take these with a grain of salt) would be to dig into things like Doxygen (and maybe Bonsai?).
Randy Kramer Roshan Mathews wrote: > Hello Frank and others, > > : The way I started was to go through Bugzilla's open bugs > : looking for ones that seemed (a) interesting, and (b) > : vaguely relevant to my expertise (such as it was/is). > > That will be bugzilla.abisource.com right? The problem is that I > have no particular area of expertise, (I thought I knew C pretty > well but had to revise my opinion after trying to work through > K&R). I am struggling through the GTK+ tutorial too. --<snip>--
