Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Potential new developer

[Hugh Mayfield]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, t s wrote:

> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 09:06:10 +0100 (BST)
> From: t s <address@hidden>
> To: hugh.mayfield <address@hidden>,
>     "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Potential new developer
>
> Your resume is fine, now try and find your niche. One of the simplest tasks is 
> to install
the system on your home machine and start using it, as you use it more and more 
you
will discover bugs which may be in the operating system or in the applications 
you are
running. You can further research these bugs and try and patch them.

This will give you an insight how the code in large projects are organised and 
how it
is maintained. This will not be a quick job.

It's a long journey, you will need to do research on operating systems - try 
the book by
Andrew S Tanenbaum. And then there is driver development - again there are lots of 
books out there.

But if you are a beginner, then install the system to learn how to use it and how to develop 
applications on it. That way you will improve your programming skills and learn more
about the operating system. Your applications will hopefully become a saleable 
commodity
as will your improved support skills.
?
Well done for your enthusiasm. Its great.

Thanks TS.  I will definitely do as you suggest.  :-)

TS



________________________________
 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.

OK, no probs.

> [1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?39232
> [2] http://www.gnewsense.org/Packaging
> [3] http://bugs.gnewsense.org/
> [4]
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/2013-09/msg00006.html
>
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