That actually sounds like great idea. I like programming myself, but finding myself a bit of a newbie found myself facing 2 obstacles which I have never overcome to this point: + how to choose/find an open source project you can contribute to. + how to actually contribute and not just be a burden generation more newbie related problems and questions slowing the project down rather then contributing to it.
Hence I have never got to the point where I joined an open source project. Recently though my interest and livelyness of the ledger community did en still does encourage me to try and submit bug reports in the hope of doing my part to improve the project even further. I do and still do this because I feel my questions and proposals are received and acted upon. Which can't besaid for any random opensource project :-s I still feel to much of a newbie and feel like I would slow a project down rather then contribute to it to actually join one, and that is assuming that I could somehow find a project that would be willing to let me in and put up with my newbie questions which is a hurdle not to be underestimated. Afterall each and every patch or change still needs to be reviewed which can put a rather heavy strain on the developers and might not always be worth it. Furthermore in order to be able to contribute one needs a fairly intemite knowledge of the project which can be very daunting. So yes, I feel that I need a bit more experience before I can be an real help to any one out there, but never quiet solved the issue of how to obtain that experience :-s So If you can help on that front then I and lots of other would be very much obliged indeed! So where do I find that mentoring community/service that you spoke off, so I can apply? ;-) with kind regards, Jeroen ps: To John, Craig: Even if only to submit typo fixed of the documentation, which I'm currently reading as a ledger newbie, I love to do my contribution if you tell me how. For now I stick to posting bug reports and if possible attach the associated patch file or bug script that causes the odd behaviour to bug zilla ;-) On Thursday, October 11, 2012 11:50:15 PM UTC+2, Michal Wallace wrote: > > Hey John / everyone, > > Do you have some bugs or wishlist items that relatively junior > developers could take on? > > Over on reddit's /r/learnprogramming there's a steady stream of people > looking to join open source projects... So a few guys got together and > created a mentoring community to help match those guys up with open > source projects, and get the projects some help while buffering them > from lots of newbie questions... > > Anyway, we're kind of doing a recruiting drive, so of course, I > thought of ledger. Do you have a list of easy tasks lying around? > > -Michal > [ sabren / tangentstorm on IRC ] > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:50 PM, John Wiegley > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > I had a LOT of bugs in the TODO file which were not yet up on Bugzilla, > so if > > anyone is interested they may wish to review the most recent 30 bugs or > so and > > see if they want to Cc themselves, or mark any of them up to P1 for the > 3.0 > > release. I currently have 12 bugs blocking the release. > > > > John >
