Re: [Bug-wget] C developper offer

[Ángel González]

Hola Julián,
Thanks a lot for your offer.

I will try to document a bit how to contribute. Note that although 
focused on wget,
most of it is generic and is applicable to other projects.

The first step would be that you download the program from the 
development sources
[ wget git repository is at git://git.savannah.gnu.org/wget.git ] and 
are able to build,
run tests, etc.

You would then post your changes to this mailing list as patches. You 
may get some
objections and send a revised patch multiple times. Finally, the 
maintainer (Giuseppe)
commits it to the main repository.

For complex patches, some GNU projects require some paperwork for 
copyright attribution, unlike
most other open source projects, see 
https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legal-Matters
(that may delay adoption of your code) You will be told if/when it's needed.

I currently don't have a suggestion for you to code on wget. You can get 
ideas on the bug tracker at savannah
and the mailing list archive. I encourage you pick something simple and 
that appeals you.


I hope to hear from you soon
Best regards