Am 05.01.2014 02:44 schrieb "Bart" <[email protected]>: > > As for being able to participate by submitting patches or fixing bugs first > > many users may consider such things outside their field of competence, or > > may only be interested in areas that affect them directly or are deeply > > knowledgeable about, [snip] For me it was always a non-starter because compiles > > were breaking due to missing units and I was always afraid of breaking my > > installations to try new things even for my own use. It is only now that I > > am becoming more confident and even then I am still wary. > > And that is exactly how I started out. > At first I was just a user of Lazarus, and I only used the release versions. > And of course I hit bugs, and I reported them in bugtracker. > When some of those bugs were not picked up soon enough (I'm a little > impatient), I tried to see if I could fix them. > At that time I never even wrote a single component of myself, so I > really had to study the LCL and Lazarus code very hard. > I then discussed these issues in the bugtracker with several of the > devels and got very usefull feedback. > This encouraged me to submit patches and some of them got accepted.
I thinl that's how most devs started out. It was the same for me and FPC :) > No need for VM images (which one could not provide for Windows at all). > Note: Lazarus works more or less on ReactOS. So one could test how good it really works and then provide a ReactOS VM with Lazarus preinstalled. Regards, Sven
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