Setting up build environments is not hard so long has I have some docs to show me how to set it up. I just to get used to the code is all, and I want to make sure I know enough to start submitting patches by the time I apply, I just have a hard time starting off.

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 10:28 +1000, Jon Cruz wrote:
> 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.

I want to stress this as there are so many student projects I've worked
on where time has been wasted setting up a build environment.  More time
than I want to talk about.  That's what I think is most important about
the two patch requirement.

               --Ted


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