Contributing, where to start?
I read this article http://www.xs4all.nl/~pmlans/studio-33/html/articles/Haiku_where_are_we_... and it made me want to try BeOS again after being a Linux-user for the last two years.
I've developed for BeOS before ( http://bebits.com/app/3131 ) and i was thinking about doing some GUI work. Maybe some preference applications or possibly even libinterface.
Does anyone know what i can do to start? Where i can find tasks that needs to be done (something specific please)
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Contributing, where to start?
sure ... I'm the team leader of the Pref Apps ...
if you'd like to go through this list and let me know which one you'd like to tackle, I'll assign it to you and we can go from there.
http://haiku-os.org/contribute.php?mode=team_view&id=preferences
to browse the source, you can go here:-
http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/haiku/haiku/trunk/src/preferences/
Re: Contributing, where to start?
You can check the status pages, but I think you'll find that they're extremely out of date.
http://haiku-os.org/learn.php?mode=status
and
http://haiku-os.org/contribute.php?mode=team_view&id=Preferences
Your best bet may be to get the source, build the thing, and start using it. You'll probably see very quickly what's there and what isn't.
If you still have a BeOS R5 system available to you, that's probably the environment that is easiest to build Haiku in.
Also, you're going to get much better developer response from the mailing list(s) and the IRC channel
http://www.freelists.org/list/openbeos
and
http://haiku-os.org/learn.php?mode=faq_print&id=20
Hope that helps get you going in the right direction.
Contributing, where to start?
Heh, you beat me to the post while I was still writing one ;)
Contributing, where to start?
Great, ill have a look at it and come back to you.