[Glade-devel] may I please join the glade 3 project...

[Neil Zanella]

Hi!

Thank you for reply... :-)

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:37:15 -0700, David Hoover <karma@deadmoose.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 21:01 -0600, Neil Zanella wrote:
> > I love this glade project you are all working on and would really love
> > to join you.
> > I would really really like to contribute.
> > Give me something to work on and I will try my very best!!!
> Great to hear it; many hands make for faster work.
> 
> As you can see by skimming through the archives from the past few weeks,
> things are starting to pick up, and a new batch of people are working on
> getting our sea legs.
> 
> At this point, I'll point you at the current glade3 bugs
> ( http://tinyurl.com/67msj ); skim through that and see if anything
> leaps out at you.

Not sure about this link (it takes me to HP Customer Care)... but I'm
aware of the bugzilla.gnome.org site...

> Another very useful thing would be to just build & use glade 3; banging
> on it to see what's shakey/broken and filing bugs against those things
> would be a great help; I have a sneaking suspicion, with some heavy use,
> a bunch of things that aren't currently in bugzilla will show up.

Certainly, I will start with just that.

> If you could pass along some information about your programming
> background, platform experiences/availabilities/preferences, particular
> areas of interest/skill, etc. it would be useful to try and figure out
> specific things to try and point you toward.

Well, I can say that I have 4+ years of experience with C++, 6+ with C,
and have done lots of GUI programming with Java, Tcl/Tk, Qt, and probably
some others which don't come to mind right now. I also know a great number
of other languages which are irrelevant to this project (I guess I could mention
SQL, PHP, Python, shell, awk, sed, whatever...), but I am picking up on GTK+
and also need to get to grips with autoconf, automake, and libtool soon.

Here is what I would interested in:

- getting the source to build properly and reporting bugs if it doesn't, perhaps
  I can even learn about autoconf etc... here
- attempting minor user interface fixes whenever I think I can do it right
  (maybe I could start working on some easy-fix low-priority stuff just to
  get my hands wet with it before I jump right in) ?
- checking out intltool compatibility (since the manual does not know
  whether it is working it seems).
- testing, testing, and testing
- ah, and I'd really like to test the new "Tree and List Widget" implementation.
  I've heared it's somewhat complex, and I would like to be there to make sure
  that it works properly and make suggestions etc... I need to learn about this
  myself since I plan to use zillions of these in a project of my own, so, I can
  check it out and see what I can do with it.

I don't know whether this sounds reasonable. I also don't know what patch
and CVS policies you have.

> Glad to see another person interested in helping out.

Thanks, as I said I want to try my best, and get started on this ASAP.
I think there is quite a lot that I could learn from this experience and I
am looking forward to it!!!! :-)

Neil