Hello again Joormana :)I like your name: I don't think it's difficult at all. I have an unusual name, too, so that's something else we have in common.
I'm glad I am able to help you settle in here at OpenOffice.org. :)In English, you only need to use the call name, no additional pronouns. I know it feels strange and impolite, but in English, it's quite OK. If you met a new person face-to-face, you might call them "Mr" or "Mrs" and their family name, but even that is disappearing from English-speaking behaviour. Online, behaviour is very casual: I know that doesn't feel comfortable when you come from a more formal culture, but we need to get used to it if we're going to be talking online in English.
I'm still getting used to it. ;) On 23/06/2008, at 3:55 PM, j brahma wrote:
Clytie, i would very much like to begin with the development of patches and participate in coding (in whatever capacity, i can) that would help in thebuilding up of the UI of OOo in Bodo (perhaps that would involve sometranslation work as well!), but i'm still not really sure where or how to begin! If i may be bold enough, i would certainly like to say that even if they may not be up to an 'acceptable' standard, at least i would like to know the basics................perhaps it could serve as a personal experience, asort of small personal project! Could you please guide me through! Please!
Of course. I remember when I was new to OpenOffice.org, and how confusing it was. I hope I can continue to help. :)
The leader of the Bodo project is the best person to tell you what needs to be done for Bodo, but otherwise, every sub-project badly needs coders. You can choose a single project [1] (e.g. Calc, or the Graphic System Layer), or start contributing to the QA Project. [2] Have a look at the list of projects, and decide where you might like to start.
I am a member of the QA Project, so I know it is just screaming out for coders! There are so many issues (bugs) reported in the Issue Tracker, which haven't yet been confirmed, much less fixed. You could be of enormous help by testing unconfirmed bugs, to see if they are genuine problems or not, and/or by submitting patches for confirmed bugs.
I know this isn't work specifically for Bodo, but any bug not reported against a specific language in the Issue Tracker will probably affect _all_ languages. Every bug you confirm or fix will help Bodo users as well.
So, unless the Bodo team takes too much of your time, we'd welcome you at the QA Project. Currently, we're planning to have a Bug-Squashing Party for Calc. This is when we all get on IRC and work together to reduce the number of bugs reported against a specific part of OpenOffice.org, in this case, the spreadsheet component Calc.
There are several other QA project members who have just joined, and I've been answering their questions, and planning to help them with new tasks. You are welcome to join as well. :)
Please register with the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list (go to [2], then click on Mailing Lists on the left), and I'll see you there! (Maybe, later on, we can even encourage more members of your CompuScience course to join in.) :)
from Clytie Vietnamese Free Software Translation Team http://vnoss.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=projects:l10n [1] http://projects.openoffice.org/ [2] http://qa.openoffice.org/
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