[Adium-devl] Beginner looking to make a contribution

[Ankur Oberoi]

Thanks Jordan.
Since I am new to open source software dev, I have a general question. How
often should i be doing an update through subversion? What's a good rule of
thumb? Should I do an update before i start working each time so that the
patching is easiest later on? Should I wait until later on, when I am done
with my fix, to update so that all my changes can be integrated all at once,
or will this likely be difficult?

I appreciate the patience you guys have for the "new kid"

On 10/29/07, Jordan S. <jas8522 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ankur,
>
> These aren't necessarily starter bugs, but you can always take a look at
> the upcoming milestones (found in the Roadmap) and take a peek at the open
> tickets. You can pick through them and give some fixes a shot if you find it
> interesting or possibly easier for you. The 1.1.4 and 1.2 milestones will
> hopefully be completed in the next few months, so those would be nice to
> have completed first, but they may not be simple for a first bug fix.
> There's also the "Good idea for later" milestone that is filled with some
> small and some large enhancements as well as a few minor bugs that could be
> fixed. In there you'll find old and new stuff so you can be sure it's not
> all outdated.
>
>
> Those milestones are a straightforward way of finding newer bugs and
> enhancements to work on, but they might not be the easiest, so feel free to
> pick through them and submit patches if you find a solution, otherwise you
> can just skip over it and try another!
>
>
> Jordan
>
> On 10/30/07, Ankur Oberoi <aoberoi at gmail.com > wrote:
>
> > Thanks for all the responses!
> >
> > I've taken a look at the starter bugs, thanks for that link. It seems
> > like those tickets havent been cleaned up in a while though. Most of them
> > have either "needs dev review" in the status or have been dismissed by
> > people saying that a certain release fixed the problem. I don't really know
> > enough about this project to be cleaning up the tickets or anything, but if
> > any of you know of additional tickets that might be for starters like me,
> > could you add them to that list?
> >
> >
> > The coding link looks really helpful, and I've read that page before,
> > but thanks for the link!
> >
> >
> > I'm not very experienced with Obj-C and Cocoa but I've already begun
> > learning them and am well on my way to catch up with the syntax and features
> > that are new to me. I think it won't be too hard to pick up because i have a
> > strong background in OOP.
> >
> >
> > Thanks again for all your help.
> >
> > On 10/26/07, Peter Hosey < boredzo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Oct 26, 2007, at 02:54:06, Ankur Oberoi wrote:
> > > > I am new to development for OSS and was hoping to get a chance to
> > > > get started with Adium. I wanted some help from the rest of you to
> > > > find a good starting point.
> > >
> > > Good to hear!
> > >
> > > The place where anyone who wants to work on Adium should start is
> > > here:
> > >
> > >          http://adiumx.com/faq/ContributingToAdium
> > >
> > > The entire Coding section is of interest to you.
> > >
> > > Let us know if you need any more info.
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Adium-devl mailing list
> > > Adium-devl at adiumx.com
> > > http://adiumx.com/mailman<http://adiumx.com/mailman/listinfo/adium-devl_adiumx.com>/listinfo/adium-devl_adiumx.com
> > > <http://adiumx.com/mailman/listinfo/adium-devl_adiumx.com>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Adium-devl mailing list
> > Adium-devl at adiumx.com
> > http://adiumx.com/mailman<http://adiumx.com/mailman/listinfo/adium-devl_adiumx.com>
> > /listinfo/adium-devl_adiumx.com<http://adiumx.com/mailman/listinfo/adium-devl_adiumx.com>
> >
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Adium-devl mailing list
> Adium-devl at adiumx.com
> http://adiumx.com/mailman<http://adiumx.com/mailman/listinfo/adium-devl_adiumx.com>
> /listinfo/adium-devl_adiumx.com<http://adiumx.com/mailman/listinfo/adium-devl_adiumx.com>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://adium.im/pipermail/devel_adium.im/attachments/20071029/3ae3be12/attachment-0001.html>