Re: [JS-internals] Mentored bugs and good first SpiderMonkey bugs

2014-04-21 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > Actually, I think SpiderMonkey is a rather good place to start hacking > on at least if you know C++. The codebase is self-contained and has been > modernized nicely over the last few years. SM also doesn't take forever > to build, and

Re: [JS-internals] Mentored bugs and good first SpiderMonkey bugs

2014-04-21 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2014-04-21, 7:27 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: I'm rather out of the loop, so I can't mention anything specifically. However, if there are any small harmony features to be implemented, those can be a lot of fun for new contributors. (You can tell your friends "I implemented that" when they star

Re: [JS-internals] Mentored bugs and good first SpiderMonkey bugs

2014-04-21 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Hi Chris, I'm going to crawl out for the woodwork for a few minutes and comment. On Mon, Apr 21, 2014, at 10:52, Chris Peterson wrote: > One of Mozilla's 2014 goals is to "Increase active contributors to=20 > Mozilla=E2=80=99s target initiatives by 10x". [1] I'm not sure where the = 10x=20 > numbe

Re: [JS-internals] Mentored bugs and good first SpiderMonkey bugs

2014-04-21 Thread Chris Peterson
oops! The link I included to Mozilla's 2014 goals was an early draft on Mozilla's intranet. Here is the page on the public wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/2014#Enable_Communities_that_have_Impact chris On 4/21/14, 10:52 AM, Chris Peterson wrote: One of Mozilla's 2014 goals is to "Increase a

[JS-internals] Mentored bugs and good first SpiderMonkey bugs

2014-04-21 Thread Chris Peterson
One of Mozilla's 2014 goals is to "Increase active contributors to Mozilla’s target initiatives by 10x". [1] I'm not sure where the 10x number comes from, but the intention is clear. SpiderMonkey is probably not the ideal component for new contributors to start hacking on Gecko, but there are e