Hello On lör, 2010-09-18 at 22:20 +0200, Carsten Petersen wrote: > I am a sw developer with app. 40 year professional experience. I'm > just > retired from my latest job. But I still want to do some sw. > development. > E.g. to contribute to the Gnome project. > But I have absolutely none experience in Gnome development! I would > like to > learn, eg. a new language Python. > > [..] > > But where do I start?
Did you find the http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove page? Especially the headline "Giving love to projects" contains a few suggestions. > Which programming environment do I need? > I know MS Visual Studio very well as a professional programmer. > At home I use both Eclipse and Netbeans ides. A lot of GNOME programmers seems to prefer just using a simple text editor. For C/C++, there's Anjuta, and for C#, there's MonoDevelop. Both of them also supports other languages to some extent - Anjuta seem to list Python. However, most projects are built with hand-written autoconf/automake systems, so you probably won't get the kind of integrated workflow you'd get with the IDE:s you listed. > Please give me some advices. > Can you propose a minor project, I can start with. And how to start. I cannot suggest a better approach than listed in the wiki page above: either first find a project, and introduce yourself to that project directly, or go look for bugs with the gnome love keyword and see if there's anything that's interesting. Personally, I first did gnome love bugs, until I'd found a project I wanted to continue contributing to. _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
