Hi, Michael: We are so happy on seeing new coming developers in the AOO community, Thank you!
To be a developer volunteer, you shall prepare an AOO build environment in your local and get some AOO technical knowledge and specifications. Such stuff could be commonly found in the AOO WIKI pages. For example, the build environment establishment document for different platforms are in here: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide And the structural introduction documents for applications could be retrieved as following: For AOO Text Document (named as 'SW' internally): http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer For AOO Impress (named as 'SD' internally): http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Impress For AOO Calc (named as 'SC' internally): http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Calc And of cause, refer to the new coming developer guide at first: http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-development.html , but as it is still a draft version, tell the community directly, if there anything should be clarified, updated or even rewrote. If you want to engage into the extension development via UNO, you can refer to the tutorials Alexandro introduced above. Thank you again, and having fun in this opening world. ZhengFan 2013-01-25 2013/1/25 Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Pedro Giffuni <p...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Hello Michael; > > > > There are many interesting things to do with Java: we could use a general > > update > > to the code to use generics (I think Eclipse has tools for that) and we > > have stuff like > > Lucene that I am pretty sure needs a review to see where we can use the > new > > features. hsqldb could also use some tender care: we even have code for > > review that no one has looked at. > > > > You could make a walkthrough SVN to see how the code is distributed and > > have a try to build it in your platform. I am not going to lie: the code > > is big > > and some parts are scary (hey it's C++ !) , but with patience you get to > > understand enough to make a huge difference. > > > > I recommend to scan the wiki for development guide, and some C++ snippets > and tutorials to work with OpenOffice and compile it, there was some cpp > tutorials. > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Uno/Cpp/Tutorials > > > > > > Pedro. > > > > > > > > > > > > >________________________________ > > > Da: Michael Lam <mnsyl4...@verizon.net> > > >A: dev@openoffice.apache.org > > >Inviato: Giovedì 24 Gennaio 2013 20:26 > > >Oggetto: Hi > > > > > >My name is Michael Lam, I am a software engineer and I would like to > > volunteer. I mostly program in Java but also know python and would like > to > > brush up on my C/C++. I have been on this mailing list for awhile and > also > > have an account on bugzilla. > > > > > >I don't have a particular module in mind and would like to know where is > > the best place to start. Do I just pick something bugzilla? I am up for > > suggestion and guidance. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > Apache OpenOffice Contributor > http://es.openoffice.org >
