On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 21:10 +0200, Cruceru Calin wrote: > Hi, > > Firstly I want to thank you German for you reply. The first steps for > a beginner are a little bit hard and it can become even discouraging > without support. > > Secondly, I will take into consideration your advice and I will choose > a specific project to start looking into and I will come back with > specific questions about its development.
Hi, You are welcome. Don't forget to use "Reply all" when you reply to a mailing list (it is considered a good practice). Thus, everybody get aware of any acknowledgement, or can contribute with different approaches and whatnot, or other people might see benefits in your question/answers as well. Everybody win. Happy hacking! [I am Cc'ing back gnome-love list] > > 2014-02-20 21:03 GMT+02:00 Germán Póo-Caamaño <[email protected]>: > On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 00:41 +0200, Cruceru Calin wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > I'm a first year computer-science romanian student and I > would like to > > start contributing to Gnome. > > > > Firstly, I have to say that I haven't decided yet upon a > project on which > > to contribute, that is why I'm writing to this mailing-list > since I expect > > to get more general advice here. > > > > As far as my knowledgement is concerned, I am well-versed in > C and C++, > > bash scripting and I'm a beginner in javascript. I'm also > very passionate > > about Linux and Gnome in particular. Taking in consideration > this, I want > > you to suggest me a couple of projects which have as > requirements these > > programming languages and where I can find easy bugs to fix > for the > > beginning. > > > A good strategy is to start contributing to application that > you usually > use. Having a good understanding on how the application works > it is > very helpful to understand the code base later (things will > start making > sense sooner than later). In addition, it will be easier for > you to > spot bugs and annoyances. > > > I already read the wiki pages and installed the needed > development tools. > > In fact, right now the jhbuild script is running and it > seems promising. > > > > I have one more explicit question to end with: is there a > method to import > > all project's sources in an IDE ( anjuta I guess is most > used ) ? I mean in > > one step or somehow and have it organized in the project > within the IDE as > > they are in the project's directory. > > > There is a diversity of editors used in GNOME. You fill find > developers > using emacs, vim, gedit, anjuta or even eclipse. > > I am not versed in Anjuta myself, but my understanding is that > you can > import one project at a time. Likely you can get a > comprehensive answer > in #anjuta (irc.gnome.org) or in Anjuta's mailing list > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/anjuta-list > > Welcome aboard! -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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