Thanks for the information (the wiki is really helpful). I'll go looking for some of those swiss flags now...
Timothy
On Jan 13, 2008 11:59 PM, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:33:13PM -0700, Timothy Yau wrote:
Hello,
I'm a 3rd year computing science student and I would like to help out
with
your project because I think it's really cool, and your 'project of the month' page seems to suggest that newcomers are welcome. I've never
worked
on an open source project before; could someone please tell me how I can
get
started? Maybe I could try to do some small bug fixes. Thanks.
Hi Timothy,
Great to hear of your interest! There's a lot of different ways to get involved, depending on your skills and interests. Generally what we suggest is to look around and find something that draws your attention. Maybe a feature that just "doesn't quite work right", a bug that looks easy to fix, or a great idea you have kicking around.
A number of people choose to get involved by working on extension scripts in Python. Others who are more comfortable working directly in C/C++ might just jump right into the code directly. Some people who look for less technical ways of contributing do so by writing documentation, making translations, triaging bugs, and so on.
http://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape is a great place to browse both for bugs needing attention, and for features that people have suggested. Some people just browse through the list looking for bugs that sound doable, and attempt fixing them; once they have a fix they can upload a patch for it to the bug tracker.
Good luck, and let us know - either here, or on IRC or Jabber - if you have questions!
Bryce