On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Sergio Fedi <[email protected]> wrote:
> As a fairly experienced Smalltalk programmer but a very new user of Pharo, > > Where do you guys suggest me to start contributing? > > To be more specific, there are parts of the system I don't know, and > practices and conventions of Pharo that I don't grasp yet, so it seems that > work that can be done without relying on that knowledge would be more > suitable for me. > > I'm open to a pair programming session via Skype/Teamviewer or other > medium. > > For example, I was contemplating on defining the About text for the > Versionner in light of the recent discussions. > > That sounds like a nice addition (though actually I don't know the convention off hand). Also, more hands are always needed for reviewing "resolved" issues to avoid them languishing. Often issues might only get one reviewer when ideally there would be two reviewers. This has a few advantages for you. * There is a lot of old code in Pharo with varying conventions. The best place to learn Pharo's conventions is "new" code. * It mitigates the "parts of the system I don't know" issue - since code changes are location specific. * You learn about system parts is a goal directed fashion (which works best for me rather than just browsing) cheers -ben
