Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Hrishit, > > Hrishit Patel schrieb: > >> Hello Dev Community, >> >> I am Hrishit. I've just joined this community. >> > > welcome on board.
> >> I am a student at IIT kanpur, India and looking forward to work with Open >> Office. >> >> As, I am new to this, I've started with Volunteer Orientation and I am >> done >> with till Infrastructure Module. >> I am good at C/C++ and would like to work with dev. (rather learn >> something >> for me :) ) >> So , what should be my next step as there are no giudelines for dev. in >> Orientation program. As of now, I am starting with looking at source code >> and Bugzilla. >> > > Do you have already found an area, in which you are interested? > > Not as yet. > > The next step is to get your own build. If you will implement something > later on, you will write and test it locally, generate a patch, and append > the patch to an issue in Bugzilla. An experienced developer will approve > the patch and commit it to trunk. > > But I have just started with building AOO and get back once I get some idea about the whole system. > On which OS do you work? Getting a build environment and building on > Windows has a lot of steps. In any case, please don't hesitate to ask here. > > I use Linux debian, though I am relatively new to Linux, I hope I'll mange with it. > There is a build guide on the Wiki, you have already seen it? > http://wiki.openoffice.org/**wiki/Documentation/Building_**Guide_AOO<http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO> > > If you prefer git, you can use git-svn. That is not described in the > guide. Please ask here, if you need help on it. > > > Kind regards > Regina > Thanks for this, I am already feeling at home here. cheers, hrishit
