I think one of the skills that most in demand is being able to install the
system. So start there and install it and see how you found that. Then when
you are using it you may find there are bugs. These bugs could be in the
operating system or in one of the applications you are using. Once you have
found a bug you need to follow the procedures around documenting and fixing a
bug. So your next step will be finding out how code in projects is organised.
So far I have only detailed the start of your journey, once you get there you can start
programming
From: hugh.mayfield <address@hidden> To: address@hidden Sent: Tuesday, 17 September 2013, 22:37 Subject: Re:
[Gnewsense-dev] Potential new developer
On 2013-09-16 17:13, Sam Geeraerts wrote: > Op Sun, 15 Sep 2013 23:23:05 +0000 (UTC) > schreef Hugh Mayfield <address@hidden>: > >> I'm just beginning to develop my C skills. I don't know other >> languages other than BASIC. I appreciate my resume coming to this >> project isn't ideal, but I'm *very* keen to learn and would *love* to >> contribute to gNewSense. I would be *honoured* to contribute to this >> project. >> >> Let me know if there are things I can do. > > Welcome to our humble community.
Thank you.
> > We don't have many todo items specific to C right now. Taking on > Epiphany [1] is a bit heavy for a beginner.
:) But learning the basics > of patching a package [2] is certainly useful in order to solve many of > our bugs [3].
What skills are needed? I'll learn whatever is most in demand.
> >> I've created an account on Savannah but got an error when I tried to >> create one on the website? > > Sorry about that. It's a short term measure against the increasing spam > we've been having [4]. I hope to enable account creation again in a few > days.