Re: I want to contribute...

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 14:58 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> "Karuppuswamy Thangaraj - TLS , Chennai" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I am a newbie to GRUB mailing list. I am interested in open source OS and
> > applications. So far I have been a user in open source. Now I want to
> > contribute something for my pleasure of coding, so that it **may** :-) be
> > useful for others also. How to start. Since I am more interested in low
> > level coding stuff (and also a regular GRUB user), I selected GRUB to
> > contribute. Here is my profile:
> 
> If you want to get started, just download the GRUB 2 sourcecode from
> CVS, play a bit with it and when you find a bug or missing feature you
> can just start in sending patches.  For details on how to send in
> patches (ChangeLog entries, style, indentation, etc) just have a look
> at the GNU Coding Standards document or feel free to ask me when you
> are not sure.

Be sure to check out the wiki pages that help you get started:
http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnX86
http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnPowerPC

I would start by installing and using GRUB2, and then you'll doubtless
find things that could be improved (from installation process to user
interface to missing functionality).

-Hollis