[Mono-list] About Mono contributing

[Jonathan Pryor]

The better question to ask is what would you like to do?

There are lots of things you can do:

  - Work on the class libraries.  See:

        http://www.go-mono.com/class-status.html

    The classes listed are the classes that need work, are incomplete,
    etc.  Find a namespace that interests you and start implementing.
    Much of this can be done on Windows and Linux.

  - Documentation.  Lots is needed.  It's in the monodoc CVS module.
    See also:

        http://www.go-mono.com/documentation.html

    However, you might want to wait on this until the documentation
    editor is complete.

    There is also the documentation mailing list:

        http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-docs-list

  - HOWTOs.  These are in the monkeytalk CVS module, and can be seen at:

        http://www.go-mono.com/tutorial/html/en/index.html

  - Test Cases:  Either implement more, or fix the bugs that they are
    finding.  NUnit is used for most test cases, but some are using
    NUnit2, so I'm not sure what we should be using for new test cases.

    Test cases should run under Windows, primarily so that we can make
    sure that the test cases work properly (and occasionally find bugs
    in .NET), but they are also run under Linux.

    However, I've heard that there are lots of mono bugs found by the
    current test cases, and these should be fixed.

  - Bug Fixes: See http://bugzilla.ximian.com, and look at the bugs for:
      gtk#
      Mono/Class Libraries
      Mono/Debugger
      Mono/Doctools
      Mono/mcs
      Mono/runtime

You should also take a look at the contributing page:

	http://www.go-mono.com/contributing.html

hth,
 - Jon

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 04:11, Anthony Boudouvas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> my name is Anthony Boudouvas, 30, i live in Greece and i am a Software
> Engineer,
> specialized in C# and .net. (windows developing).
> I am very excited since i saw a few months ago your effort about porting
> .NET to Linux. I also saw Virtuozo, a project that it runs with Mono.
> 
> I have spare time enough and i really want to contribute to this.
> I saw that there is job to be done in the Mono itself and in projects around
> it.
> My programming background is over 15 years of coding in Assembly, Delphi,
> VB,
> COM/DCOM, Sql Server and from 2001 C# and .net.
> My coding is only on Windows machines, i do not have any expertise (or
> machine)
> with Linux.
> 
> Can you please tell me if i can participate on this and in what part ?
> 
> Thanks a lot for your time.
> 
> Anthony Boudouvas
> 
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