The best way to start is start learning the source.  John is an AMAZING
programmer.  You will learn some C++ techniques you may haver never
imagined.  I have joked with him that it is the first time I have seen
someone write LISP in C++. then fix one small problem at a time and submit
the patch.

Craig

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Jeroen De Vlieger <[email protected]>wrote:

> That actually sounds like great idea.
>
> I like programming myself, but finding myself a bit of a newbie found
> myself facing 2 obstacles which I have never overcome to this point:
>  + how to choose/find an open source project you can contribute to.
>  + how to actually contribute and not just be a burden generation more
> newbie related problems and questions slowing the project down rather then
> contributing to it.
>
> Hence I have never got to the point where I joined an open source project.
>
> Recently though  my interest and livelyness of the ledger community did en
> still does encourage me to try and submit bug reports in the hope of doing
> my part to improve the project even further. I do and still do this because
> I feel my questions and proposals are received and acted upon. Which can't
> besaid for any random opensource project :-s
> I still feel to much of a newbie and feel like I would slow a project down
> rather then contribute to it to actually join one, and that is assuming
> that I could somehow find a project that would be willing to let me in and
> put up with my newbie questions which is a hurdle not to be underestimated.
> Afterall each and every patch or change still needs to be reviewed which
> can put a rather heavy strain on the developers and might not always be
> worth it.
>
> Furthermore in order to be able to contribute one needs a fairly intemite
> knowledge of the project which can be very daunting.
>
> So yes, I feel that I need a bit more experience before I can be an  real
> help to any one out there, but never quiet solved the issue of how to
> obtain that experience :-s
> So If you can help on that front then I and lots of other would be very
> much obliged indeed!
> So where do I find that mentoring community/service that you spoke off, so
> I can apply? ;-)
>
> with kind regards, Jeroen
>
> ps: To John, Craig: Even if only to submit typo fixed of the
> documentation, which I'm currently reading as a ledger newbie, I love to do
> my contribution if you tell me how.
> For now I stick to posting bug reports and if possible attach the
> associated patch file or bug script that causes the odd behaviour to bug
> zilla ;-)
>
>
>
> On Thursday, October 11, 2012 11:50:15 PM UTC+2, Michal Wallace wrote:
>
>> Hey John /  everyone,
>>
>> Do you have some bugs or wishlist items that relatively junior
>> developers could take on?
>>
>> Over on reddit's /r/learnprogramming there's a steady stream of people
>> looking to join open source projects... So a few guys got together and
>> created a mentoring community to help match those guys up with open
>> source projects, and get the projects some help while buffering them
>> from lots of newbie questions...
>>
>> Anyway, we're kind of doing a recruiting drive, so of course, I
>> thought of ledger. Do you have a list of easy tasks lying around?
>>
>> -Michal
>> [ sabren / tangentstorm on IRC ]
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:50 PM, John Wiegley <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > I had a LOT of bugs in the TODO file which were not yet up on Bugzilla,
>> so if
>> > anyone is interested they may wish to review the most recent 30 bugs or
>> so and
>> > see if they want to Cc themselves, or mark any of them up to P1 for the
>> 3.0
>> > release.  I currently have 12 bugs blocking the release.
>> >
>> > John
>>
>


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