Hi Steve, If you want to contibute the best start is to joint the GnuCash Dev and GnuCash User mailing lists https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists as suggested
The mailing lists are also accessible via a Nabble web interface which I find easier to use than email but that is a personal preference. http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/. One thing that is not obvious is you need to register separately for the mailing lists and the Nabble interface otherwise your posts end up in moderation limbo for a time. Same credentials seems to work OK. If you are replying by email the use the Reply to All or Reply to List to make sure posts reach the list so that all the list contributors can see and respond. The Dev list doesn't have a lot of traffic at times, usually increases around a rlease. I think a lot of main developers also use the IRC channel regularly. The GnuCash code can be daunting to find your way round at first. I have found Sourcetrail useful in that regard for finding linked code in the different sections. Code documentation is fairly sparse. Are you using GnuCash as a user? That may help with some familiararity with the terminolgy. If not http://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml will give you an introduction The Wiki has a development page which links some other information relevant for the process. https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development_Process The core developers at the moment are Geert Janssens, John Ralls and Derek Atkins. There is also a list of the historical developers somewhere in the code base. Some are still actively working on the code. There is also a documentation team and a separate github repository for the docs. Good luck David Cousens On Tue, 2018-12-18 at 01:26 +0000, Steve Aldrich wrote: > Hi David, My name is Steve Aldrich. I am a software engineer with about 30 > years of experience. I have a bachelor's > and master's degree in computer science. I am able to help with the gnu cash > development. > I looked on the web and one reccomendation was "get on a mailing list and see > what's happening." So, I did that, and > that's how I got your name. I don't really follow anything that is discussed. > > Here's the bottom line. If anyone wants a very good programmer to help out I > can do that. I've written programs since > the 70s and used everything from Ada to Xerces. > > Please let me know if anyone can give me some kind of assignment or help me > find a place to contribute. > Feel free to pass this note along to anyone else in the chain. > > Thanks, > Steve Aldrich > Bozeman MT, USA > > On Sunday, December 16, 2018, 8:46:03 PM MST, David Cousens > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi > > Could some one with the appropriate authorization possibly add the Wiki > Media Maths extension to the server? > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math/advancedSettings > > I am using a bit of maths to describe setting up non interest bearing loans > and it is proving difficult to layout in just HTML > > Thanks > > David Cousens > > > > ----- > David Cousens > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
