Himar Carmona wrote: > time and with a "misery" knowledge about OSG (in comparison to yours) > but with a desire to collaborate can do something. Perhaps commiting > some docs or examples, correcting some bugs or simply with code > review?
Yes, yes and yes! One of the early projects I coordinated (that was never completed) was the OSG "spelling bee", an attempt to review all the code comments and fix obvious spelling and grammar errors. This can be done without necessarily knowing exactly how the code works, as typically you're just enforcing rules of grammar. A bigger project would be to go through parts of code that you ARE fairly familiar with, and try to expand/improve on the doxygen documentation. Many areas of the code are incompletely documented, and documentation is one of the most frustrating barriers to new OSG users. Bug fixes are always welcomed, but they tend to be of the form of "I found this problem and I already fixed it". Anything larger than that is usually more of a feature/functionality request. I seem to recall that Robert isn't keen on issue trackers, so I don't know if we have an ongoing list of things wanting for user assistance. There is ALWAYS room for code testing during a release cycle, or even for patch submissions. If someone posts code to osg-submissions that is something you think you could test, grab the files, look them over, apply them to your source tree and try it out. I'm sure code review comments at this stage would be a valuable step. (For example, I just dumped a heap of submissions on the osg-submissions list yesterday that might benefit from wider testing before Robert looks at them.) > Perhaps there are some people in the same situation like me > wanting to offer their help but too "shy" to take a step forward. And > perhaps two or three people like myself working together temporally in > a little parcel of the field could let the synergy starting to grow. > Don't know, but for sure, there are many people in the same situation > thats only need a concrete task (and affordable to us) to step > forward. Any volunteer more? :) I agree completely. If we give users somewhere to start, they can grow to more familiarity and capacity in the future. Oh, and being more familiar with OSG helps YOU too! -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere Xenon AlphaPixel.com PixelSense Landsat processing now available! http://www.alphapixel.com/demos/ "There is no Truth. There is only Perception. To Perceive is to Exist." - Xen _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
