That's definitely the process--but there's more to it than that IMO. It's in all of our best interests to help out new developers. This needn't be thought of as "hand holding". I don't think we'd be coddling anyone by compiling a list of references and resources to the 50,000 foot view of the technology on our wiki.
The point is to grow a strong community, with the understanding that strong technology will result from it. : ) -- N. Alex Rupp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Urberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:30 AM Subject: Re: Plan of Action (RE: committers (again)) > I can remember when I was fairly new to open source (which wasn't that long > ago). I'm not sure any hand holding is required. The way it works is you just > grab the code base, get to know it, find something that is broken, announce to > everyone that you're going to fix it, and how (to make sure that no one else is > doing the same thing) and then fix it. Then either commit if (if you have > rights) or send it to the list for someone else to commit it. The same goes for > new fuctionality. It's really not as hard as it seems, it's just *a lot* > different that what you're used to, which is people telling you how it should > be done. From my experence, this has been my understanding of how open source > works. > > That's my $0.02 added on to your $0.02 which makes $0.04 :) > > Tim Urberg > OpenEJB Developer > > --- Michael Portnoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Okay, so I'm new to open-source projects. While I have > > plenty of software engineering experience It has all > > been embedded, C,C++ Assembly. > > > > I think a seperate e-mail list should be created for > > newbies or people who want to contribute. So we > > can ask the "stupid" questions. and possible get > > somebody who could "mentor" us, if you will. Just > > so we could get enough hand-holding to get us over > > the rough-spots. > > > > Of course that means that some of you "old-timers" > > must > > be willing to monitor the list and contribute. I know > > most of you old-timers didn't have anybody to hold > > your hand, but I do think it will be helpful to the > > people and the project. > > > > Michael "my $.02" Portnoy >
