Re: [Pharo-dev] Where to start contributing

2015-05-06 Thread Sergio Fedi
​Thanks for the advice. Seems a really safe and newbie-friendly task to: 1 - Review other people's fixes and comment on them 2 - Try to reproduce bugs, post them and maybe make a test case for it

Re: [Pharo-dev] Where to start contributing

2015-05-06 Thread stepharo
Hi sergio start small. Here is what I did when I started to want to participate to squeak. Read the description of bugs or enhancement and check if what the people are doing is making sense. LIke that you will start to get a feel of some parts of the system. Read the bugs report and try to rep

Re: [Pharo-dev] Where to start contributing

2015-05-04 Thread Sergio Fedi
Great, thanks for the explanation Ben. Now I know how to do that. ​ *bookmarking mail*

Re: [Pharo-dev] Where to start contributing

2015-05-03 Thread Ben Coman
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Sergio Fedi wrote: > @Cyril > I tried to do what you suggested, but the amount of cases to resolve is > huge, I'm quite lost on where to begin, and most of them I don't understand > how to solve them > > @Ben > Which ones do you suggest I should begin reviewing? >

Re: [Pharo-dev] Where to start contributing

2015-05-03 Thread Sergio Fedi
I saw that discussion, but I didn't know how I could (if I could) contribute to that problem. ​

Re: [Pharo-dev] Where to start contributing

2015-05-03 Thread Cyril Ferlicot
Marcus opened a discussion last time and the result is that he'll maybe close all the bugs and ask to people to reopen only the one we really want. http://forum.world.st/Issue-tracker-what-about-old-issues-td4822552.html On 4 May 2015 at 02:27, Sergio Fedi wrote: > @Cyril > I tried to do what you

Re: [Pharo-dev] Where to start contributing

2015-05-03 Thread Sergio Fedi
@Cyril I tried to do what you suggested, but the amount of cases to resolve is huge, I'm quite lost on where to begin, and most of them I don't understand how to solve them @Ben How do I do that reviewing you suggest? Which ones do you suggest I should begin reviewing? ​ If anyone else have more c

Re: [Pharo-dev] Where to start contributing

2015-05-02 Thread Ben Coman
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Sergio Fedi wrote: > As a fairly experienced Smalltalk programmer but a very new user of Pharo, > > Where do you guys suggest me to start contributing? > > To be more specific, there are parts of the system I don't know, and > practices and conventions of Pharo th

Re: [Pharo-dev] Where to start contributing

2015-05-02 Thread Cyril Ferlicot
Hi, there is many things you can do. - you can use the Pharo 5 image and check for something wrong, if you find one you can talk about it on the Mailing list and open a bug entry. (If you don't know the PharoLauncher you should take a look: http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Pharo/PharoLauncher that

[Pharo-dev] Where to start contributing

2015-05-02 Thread Sergio Fedi
As a fairly experienced Smalltalk programmer but a very new user of Pharo, Where do you guys suggest me to start contributing? To be more specific, there are parts of the system I don't know, and practices and conventions of Pharo that I don't grasp yet, so it seems that work that can be done wit