Hi Gregor, first thank you for presenting yourself. Since currently the process of becoming a committer is not final (see issue #240475), I recommend you to start with checking out pdt source code and pick few issues (bugs and enhancements) from Bugzilla to solve. Although the process is not final one thing is always true - "a developer gains such committer rights through frequent and valuable contributions".
Also, I recommend you to start looking in the following links that can be handy when starting to contribute to pdt: PDT development environment (checking out the code): http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT_Development_Environment Conventions and Guidelines: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Conventions_and_Guidelines Articles about PDT development: http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/articles/articles.php Unit testing for PDT: http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT_Testing_Framework Working procedures: http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT_Developers_Working_Procedures Project plan: http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/plans/php_plan_2_0.php Good luck! - Roy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregor Wegberg Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 10:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [pdt-dev] Getting involved in PDT (Sorry for my English - I did my best) Good Morning I met yesterday (Open Source Jam Zurich at Google Switzerland) a very interesting person. With him I had a short talk about PDT. I forgot the name (as always), but he said some interesting things about PDT development: There are some presentations and documents about the PDT development and how to get into it. I played with the idea for a long time to get involved in the PDT project. There is only one thing, that isn't so easy: to get into such a project, to find out how everything works,... . What I'm looking for is some information material about the PDT project. I've done some small experiments with extending Eclipse, but I don't see a useful thing that I can do for my own. So I'd like to play at first a bit around with the PDT source (to learn it) and with the time to become a committer (solving bugs and at some time I can implement a new feature). What I'm searching is any kind of useful material to get into the development of PDT. I found some peaces with searching but it's hard to know how good it is, how new, and so on. I thank you already for your help! And thank you for PDT it made my PHP development a lot easier and more fun. For people which are interested in who I am: I'm a 20 years old Apprentice (I work three days and go two days to school). I've been developing PHP for more than five years, Java for about three years (but very intensive). I also have the SCJA and SCJP - but I don't think that this say a lot about my programming skills. I work for the SFMS Management AG (but in reality for SWX Swiss Exchange AG) and there I'm writing in C# for .NET. For PDT I will work in my free time, so the whole thing doesn't have to do anything with my company. I also have experience with other programming languages: Visual Basic (everyone has to start with something ;-) ), Delphi, a bit of school C, Python and so on. At home I use Gentoo and Windows XP as my preferred OS but I have also experience (most of them I used for a short time during my education) with other platforms like Solaris, OpenVMS, a lot GNU/Linux Distr. and the Mac OS. I was born in Russia but I've been living in Switzerland since I was 6 years old. My target in education is to go to the university (ETHZ: http://en.wikipedia.org/ETHZ) and get a Master. My current education is a bit hard to describe. I can only describe the school with "boring" because of the things you learn. Because of that I try to do a lot at home for my education like the SCJA / SCJP, reading books and developing and hopefully soon working on PDT. Thank you and I wish you all a sunny day, Gregor Wegberg _______________________________________________ pdt-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/pdt-dev _______________________________________________ pdt-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/pdt-dev
