On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 07:53, Bryce Harrington wrote:
No problem, you're in. Welcome to the team :) And I know by experience that CVS access is addictive, and a good motivation for people to keep contributing :) Please still use the patch tracker for dangerous changes that may need review, but feel free to patch any small or obvious things right in the CVS (our motto is "patch now, discuss later" :) Also you might want to read the UI section on our Wiki to get an idea of the major plans and discussions in this area. (If you'd be able to help with any of tasks there, such as reorganization of dialogs or building the secondary toolbar, that would be fantastic!)
Yup, welcome aboard!
In addition to the patch tracker, feel free to take ownership of any bugs or feature requests you'd like to work on. And have a look at the Roadmap page in Wiki, which shows specific tasks we identified as needing done prior to the next release.
Also, we encourage use of setting up a CVS branch for significant work that might break the tree for other developers. There's a page in Wiki describing how to set up (and later merge) branches if you've not done it before.
Thank you. :) I have now committed my first tiny CVS change (another world premiere for me :D), it doesn't seem that difficult.
As I'd especially like to work on polishing the user interface, I think I should probably ask you first about your position on the HIG, etc. I noticed that many parts of the UI are still not HIG compliant or very non-standard for no obvious reason. The best example probably is the secondary toolbar, which shows buttons instead of typical toolbar icons. But there are also smaller examples where I'm unsure, for example I wonder if there is a specific reasons to show all shortcuts as lowercase instead of uppercase. In general, how committed are you to the HIG and interface standards? :) And should I ask before each change?
Daniel