To all our new contributors recently joining our mailing list, hello! I know many of you have not yet introduced yourselves. If you’re here to get involved in development, please say hello, feel free to share any background details about yourself, talk about what project ideas are of interest to you, mention what steps you taken to become familiarized with BRL-CAD, etc. For GSoC students, there’s a nice checklist [1] that you can use. Remember to also consider working with one of the four orgs included under our umbrella as they will all be taking on students excited to work with them.
We appreciate folks that take the initiative to do their homework instead of asking for someone to hold their hand. Download the code, compile, ask smart questions, work on a patch. When you submit changes, make sure you submit them in patch file format [2], not just provide your version of a file or snippets of code. Otherwise, it’s very difficult and time consuming to figure out what you changed. This is not a homework assignment. ;) Patches (which even underpin pull requests) are the common way to exchange and discuss code changes with pretty much every open source community. If you find an area of BRL-CAD, OpenSCAD, LibreCAD, STEPcode, or LinuxCNC that you think you can help make better, please do talk about your ideas. The more you talk, the better. If this were a college homework assignment, think of your ability to communicate well as being worth half your grade! The other half is how productive you can be without unnecessarily consuming the time of others. ;) So don’t wait, introduce yourself and get started talking about your ideas for a project. I look forward to hearing from each of you! Cheers! Sean [1] http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Checklist [2] http://brlcad.org/wiki/Patches ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
