[E-devel] Im new here!
Hello everyone, Im new to this list and just want to introduce myself: Im Douglas from Brasil, Im student of Eletric Engineer, linux user and system administrador as profession. I used englightenment for years and always wanted to help in some way but never had the iniciative to do it, now I want to contribute in any way I can. To start with it I think I could translate the incoming E17 to portuguese, the programs tools and documentations its a lot of work but I can find some help over here!! After that if my C skills grow faster and faster maybe I can get my hands in some code ?? : ) Thanks Douglas Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Internet rápida e grátis. Instale o discador agora!
Re: [E-devel] Im new here!
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:00:14 -0300, Douglas De Toni said: > To start with it I think I could translate the incoming E17 to portuguese, the > programs tools and documentations its a lot of work but I can find some > help over here!! Feel free - translation is something that very rarely gets done by the core coders, simply because they don't speak Portuguese or Chinese or Swedish or whatever. So volunteers who read/write the language are always appreciated. (I'd do a Latvian translation, except that although my Latvian is good enough to deal with a newspaper or a TV broadcast, my technical Latvian is non-existent. You rarely see "iconify" in the newspaper. :) > After that if my C skills grow faster and faster maybe I can get my hands in > some code ?? : ) A good way to get started on this is to find a bug, quirk, or irritating misfeature, and fix it - quite often a bug is (a) caused by an error that only affects a few lines of code (forget to initialize something, or do 2 things in the wrong order, etc), and (b) not something that the original programmer can easily duplicate for debugging. Don't worry if you find the problem and don't know how to fix it - quite often, being able to narrow it down from "The window manager suddenly dies" to one function and say "This routine does wrong thing, but I'm not sure what's right here" is enough to let somebody else fix it. Just this week, I learned more than I ever wanted to about the Linux kernel's handling of ioperm() while tracking down a 2-line error in Ingo Molnar's latency patches that caused a nasty memory leak - and I suspect I'm literally the only user who runs both Ingo's patches *and* the buggy gkrellm plug-in that made the leak noticeable. So I ended up fixing 2 separate small bugs that combined to cause major issues on my laptop.. And the importance of having a small army of people finding and fixing these little 2 and 3 line errors cannot be underestimated - I suspect that there isn't any truly successful open-source project that doesn't have such an army pgpZn0KHN8PQT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [E-devel] Im new here!
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:00:14 -0300 (ART) Douglas De Toni (B<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: (B (B> Hello everyone, Im new to this list and just want to introduce myself: (B> Im Douglas from Brasil, Im student of Eletric Engineer, linux user and system (B> administrador as profession. I used englightenment for years and always wanted (B> to help in some way but never had the iniciative to do it, now I want to (B> contribute in any way I can. To start with it I think I could translate the (B> incoming E17 to portuguese, the programs tools and documentations its a (B> lot of work but I can find some help over here!! After that if my C skills (B> grow faster and faster maybe I can get my hands in some code ?? : ) (B (BRight now there is no room/need to translate as there is so little text that is (BALWAYS changing - it is not useful. coding expertise itself is probably the most (Bdesired thing at the moment. e17's windowmanager code went into CVS this week - (Bhell i'm even USING it as my window manager. but what we need now is 1. everyone (Bwho is a good programmer looking at the code. getting their head around it - (Bwhere things are etc. i even wrote a document (in doc/ in e17's wm tree) to help (Bguide you. of course many parts are not 100% complete - some are only partially. (Bit's limited in features, icccm compliance and netwm/mwm etc. hint support. but (Bit DOES work - it looks pretty too. (B (Bfor those not coding-inclined we'd like a small group of people to help do a (Bmakeover on the website. ben (our current main web guy) is a bit swamped and so (Bwe'd like those willing to help get enlightenment.org a facelift and be more (Busable/useful going. i have set up a "cms" (drupal) on (Bhttp://www.enlightenment.org/t/ - if you are SERIOUS about helping (writing (Bcontent, fixing up the theme/look, writing docs, articles, etc.) let us know. we (Bwill need to port the existing content over, fix up the look and feel a bit, (Betc. etc. (B (B-- (B- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -- (BThe Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)[EMAIL PROTECTED] $BMg9%B?(B [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BTokyo, Japan ($BEl5~(B $BF|K\(B) (B (B (B--- (BSF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide (BRead honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. (BDiscover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. (Bhttp://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ (B___ (Benlightenment-devel mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bhttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
