Hi Billy, I'm a n00b and I faced the tall learning curve too.
I would say that things are easier than before to get started. The API and Opengrok websites are really helping: http://api.libreoffice.org/ http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/ Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India On 09/30/2011 09:09 PM, Billy Charlton wrote: > Ha, thanks for the warm welcome! What a difference :-) > > So, my pet peeve issue is a Calc bug/feature request first filed in > *2003* -- and is in the OOo bugzilla > at https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=10864 . I actually > filed one of the 12 dupes around 2006. The comment thread is pretty > depressing. Apparently not low-hanging fruit or this would have been > fixed ages ago right? It's a frustrating UI issue for users who are > accustomed to Excel. > > I always wondered if there was some dark reason this issue kept getting > backburned when the project was still in OOo. > > Anyway, I've done plenty of C++ and UI development projects so I'm not > afraid of tackling it, but the codebase is pretty impenetrable for > someone just starting out on this project. Pointers welcome! > > ..Billy > > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@novell.com > <mailto:michael.me...@novell.com>> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 13:52 -0700, Billy Charlton wrote: > > I just did my first git clone of the core libreoffice codebase, hoping > > to poke around to see if I could start helping out with some > > bugfixing. > > Cool ! :-) what bug are you most interested in ? and/or have you > grokked the easy hacks ? prolly the best way to get into the code is to > ask questions and meet with the hackers on #libreoffice-dev on > irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net> - if you're not familiar > with IRC, it is really worth > getting into it - for interactive discussion & mentoring. > > There is a lot to do of course - one of the things that came up > recently was the idea of getting: > > http://code.google.com/p/include-what-you-use/ > > going, but that's prolly going to be quite a bit more > difficult on > Windows than Linux (many things are sadly). > > Anyhow - great to have you around & thanks for the report, > looks like > we'll get a nice fix to hide the (apparent) badness in those files - > which we use as regression tests. > > All the best, > > Michael. > > -- > michael.me...@suse.com <mailto:michael.me...@suse.com> <><, Pseudo > Engineer, itinerant idiot > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice