Hi e1000, thanks for sharing your experiences and your help so far. It's been good to see what you've been able to accomplish already.
Last month I started a couple of articles on C related stuff, that I hope you will enjoy. One on 'post modern C tooling' for all the tools people are using post 2011 with C. Also one on SDL2 fundamentals in C. Hopefully soon we can get a new pygame release out, and lots of people can also enjoy your efforts :) cheers, On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:14 PM e1000 <e1...@globenet.org> wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > personal experience concerning contribution: > It will strongly depend on your background and desires. > > I just started couple of month getting involved. > > It turned out, "low hanging fruits" and "good first issue" did not fit > exactly to me. I'm beginner on C. So I started trying to reproduce the > bugs, put comments, added lengthy tickets to trigger problems and did a > lot of boring still necessary python-test-cleanup (which can still be > improved and a lot of tests still are missing...). > I also did the cleanup of removing lower Python & SDL versions. Here I > learned that SDL1.2 is very old (and the development is abandoned?), so > I guess the team would be happy to be able to switch to SDL2 and I > suggest to see it as a priority ;) but unfortunately, I can not > contribute to it... > Finally, with my mathematical background, I can enter the drawing issues > and did some C algorithm stuff, so I'm happy to learn C with nice help > from everybody :) > > Documentation is also always improvable. And somebody suggested, we > should improve the examples... > > Still so many things to do \o/ > > > On 05/11/2018 11:33, René Dudfield wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I strongly feel that starting with tests is a good idea, and also for > > "good first issue" issues. > > Most projects mark issues which should be fairly easy to get started on. > > Definitely choose a project based on your interests, and one where > > people are willing to help out. > > > > Here's a "good first issue" for you if you want it: > > https://github.com/pygame/pygame/issues/565 > > Just say on there something like "I'm working on this". > > > > Also see: https://www.pygame.org/wiki/Contribute > > Feel free to drop in the #contributing room where you can get help. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:08 AM Thomas Sanjurjo <sanjur...@gmail.com > > <mailto:sanjur...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > If I'm getting my feet wet with programming seriously, where should > > I best focus my efforts? I can do documentation and explain what > > code does decently well, but I'd also like to actually conteibute > > some code to the project. > > > > Thanks for pointing me in the right direction . > >
