On 11/10/2012 02:04 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Maseeh Sabir <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
My name is Maseeh Sabir and I am a recent graduate of Louisiana State
University with a degree in computer science. Currently I am working with
an Healthcare IT/Consulting company here in Louisana, US. I am a .Net
developer and have experience in c# VB. Our software is heavily dependent
on data from database engines. So I have lots of experience working with
databases. I also have some experience in Java using eclipse and
JDeveloper.
Hello Maseeh,
Thanks for asking about how you can volunteer with the Apache
OpenOffice project. I am up in Massachusetts, near Boston. But I
did enjoy a vacation in New Orleans a couple of years ago. I don't
know how you survive the heat and humidity! Of course, three feet of
snow is not for everyone either...
I saw the link for volunteers. I am interested in helping with any area
based on my skills. As a new developer, I believe this will help me learn
new skills and improve my experience. Please let me know how can I get
started
OpenOffice is mainly written in C++. If you are interested in
developing skills in C++ this could be one way. But it is not the
easiest introduction to the language.
I see you mention Java and Eclipse experience. We use both in our
test automation framework. This uses Java to write JUnit test cases
that exercise the GUI of OpenOffice, We run the test suite in
Eclipse. I don't think we have much test coverage for Base (the
database component in OpenOffice). So this could be one way of using a
combination of your current skills.
If you look at this page we list a bunch of different project where we
welcome volunteers:
http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/get-involved.html
Also, we've started some "new volunteer orientation modules" here:
http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/orientation/index.html
(work in progress).
You sent your note to the our main dev list. If you are interested in
discussing the QA test automation stuff, I'd recommend that you sign
up for our QA mailing list here:
http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html#qa-mailing-list
Regards,
-Rob
thanks
Another welcome, Maseeh!
In addition to Rob's comments, based on your database interest
experience, you may be interested in diving right in to helping sovle
some issues we've had with the jdbc connector in Base, the database part
of OpenOffice. Complete bugs listing based on "jdbc" search:
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=&content=jdbc
I use eclipse also, but primarily work on the websites so I don't know
how well it works for code modifications. Some of the other developers
may be able to offer more information on that. I do remember having to
tweak my jvm a bit to get around initial load issues due to size. But,
as the saying goes, your mileage may vary.
Please do register with this mailing list to continue with your
volunteering efforts. We could certainly benefit by your education and
experience!
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MzK
“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world
she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
-- Anais Nin
