On Jan 26, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Eric Kuzmenko wrote:
So for students to even be considered, let alone accepted accepted, they must first have commit access to the repo? I didn't think you had to be completely familiar with the code since you are a 'student'. Please help me with this because I want to apply but haven't had the time to go through all the doxygen docs and become familiar with the code yet.
Well... the first step is to be able to pull and build.
Then you need to be able to change *something*. Hopefully in a way that might eventually lead to fixing a bug or improving the codebase.
Then just push up two of these. They can be smaller.
In general, a student will need the basic ability to work on code already. Just in getting to the state of being able to submit small changes as patches, many things will be discovered and problems will arise and be overcome.
Drop into the chat room if you need guidance on where to poke at the code once you have your local build successfully going.