Hello and welcome to you!
On 12/22/08 12:01, Robert Black wrote:
I am a c++ programmer and I would like to start making some contributions to
OOo. I would really appreciate if someone could give me some advice on how
I should start.
The OOo wiki contains useful information and tutorials. Some of them are
outdated as things are changing fast ;-)
I thought that doing some easy bug fixes would be a nice way to get to 'know
the ropes'. I would also be very happy to work closely with someone if they
have a little mini-project going on and they would like some assistance with
that.
Should I just grab the latest source code, get it building and then look for
something in the issue tracker and submit patches?
Yes, that sounds very good.
Perhaps you should try to build OOo for yourself to get in touch with
Subversion, modules, etc.
Checkout a recent milestone on an operating system of your choice
(building on Linux is imho very easy compared to Windows/Solaris) from
the Subversion repository (e.g.
svn://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/tags/DEV300_m37).
Btw. you can browse the sourcecode via
http://svn.services.openoffice.org/opengrok .
Then if you have successfully build OOo yourself, I would try to apply
and test some patches, verify bugs, etc.
Don't hesitate to ask questions, hacking OOo can be a challenging task ;-)
Good luck!
Christian
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