I'd strongly encourage you become familiar with the product as an admin first. Spacewalk/Satellite is a large product with many use scenarios. It's difficult to hack on any product when you're not really familiar with it.
Just my $0.02 CC > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Travis Camechis > Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 9:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-devel] beginning spacewalk development > > Thanks for the advice everyone. Whats probably the best way > to get familiar with spacewalk? I know the overall spacewalk > functionality but never actually used it. Also whats the > best way to pick bugs? I don't want to do one that someone > else is already doing > > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Mike McCune > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote: > > > My suggestion is to start (small) on something > you don't like about spacewalk/satellite or think > improvements can be made. > > I'm still only tinkering around the edges but > that's how I started. > > CC > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: > [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Travis Camechis > Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 5:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Spacewalk-devel] beginning > spacewalk development > > I have finally got my Dev environment > all setup. My question now is, where would be a good place > to start for beginners on the project? Right now I have no > preference. > > > > > > That is good advice. The other thing todo is pickup a > bug scheduled for the next releaseand work towards fixing it: > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=space05&; > hide_resolved=1 > > that is our 'tracker' bug in Bugzilla that lists all > the bugs we currently have lined up for Spacewalk 0.5. That > said, I'd actually recommend Colin's route if you have > something specific you don't like and want to improve. > Definitely ask lots of questions, bug us on IRC, etc... > > Mike > -- > Mike McCune > mmccune AT redhat.com > Engineering | Portland, OR > RHN Satellite | 650.567.9039x79248 > > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel > > > > NOTICE: This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You must not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages and all attachments. _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
