Thank you guys. I will look at those cases Sent from my Windows Phone From: Kay Schenk Sent: 11/11/2012 2:00 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: volunteer position
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! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
