Re: Contribute to GNU radio

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Hi César!

It's awesome that you want to help!
If you've used GNU Radio before, then: YOU DEFINITELY HAVE THE SKILLS!

Generally, we always need people to

1. Write documentation,
2. Test our current development version,
3. Report and reproduce bugs,
4. Review pull requests,
5. Fix bugs and
6. implement new features.

So, pick any one of these six problems!

We have a tag "good first issue" on the GNU Radio bug tracker[1]. Try
these; I hope these are actually good first issues in that they are
easy enough for a beginner to both pick up how to work with the project
as community as much as as code base whilst still teaching you a bit
about everyday problems of GNU Radio.

I especially like #1971 [2], where we're still missing a few
illustrating flow graphs in gr-qtgui/examples for every single Qt GUI
visualization, and a screenshot in the Block Documentation of the Qt
Blocks [3]. That would actually combine 1., 2., probably 3. and
potentially 5., and maybe even 6. in one task!

You might want to install the current "master" branch of GNU Radio. If
you're on Ubuntu, that's pretty easy (thanks to Josh's new Ubuntu PPA),
if not, you'll need to build from source.

Best regards,
Marcus


[1] 
https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22
[2] https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/issues/1971
[3] 
https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php?title=Category:Block_Docs&pagefrom=Q#mw-pages
On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 20:56 +0000, César fumfum wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I’m an engineering student of third year who have been using this tool for 1 
> year and i love GNU radio. Now i feel that i can contribute to this project 
> and help the free software, but i don’t know if i got the needed skills.
>  
> I would like to help developing tools because i know a few programming 
> languages (java, c++ and Python) at a basic / intermediate level, and i know 
> the basics of signal processing which is learnt in college.
>  
> Do you got any recommendation for me? Are my skills good enough to start 
> contributing to this project?
> Thanks in advance.

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