Interested in becoming a developer
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| Interested in becoming a developer | Ville Sokk | 05 Feb 20:01 |
| Interested in becoming a developer | Tobias Jakobs | 06 Feb 08:39 |
| Interested in becoming a developer | Tobias Jakobs | 06 Feb 08:59 |
Interested in becoming a developer
I'm a computer science student and I would like to help out with GIMP development. I have never been involved in an open-source project so a lot of the tools are new and unfamiliar to me and I might be slow and need guidance in the beginning.
What I have done so far is download and compile babl, gegl and gimp from git (gegl without libavcodec, libavformat and v4l, gimp without ASCII art and webkit I think, both without documentation generation) and it seems to work. I didn't compile any of the dependencies from source, I installed newer versions from Debian unstable. I hope this is OK?
Can anyone point me to some easy bugs that need fixing or any other issue I could use to get started? Anything important I need to know (I already read through HACKING and parts of the developer FAQ that seemed relevant)?
Interested in becoming a developer
Hello,
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 21:01, Ville Sokk wrote:
I'm a computer science student and I would like to help out with GIMP development. I have never been involved in an open-source project so a lot of the tools are new and unfamiliar to me and I might be slow and need guidance in the beginning.
The best thing is to meet the other developers in IRC and talk directly with them. Here you can find a wiki page with some informations for new developers. Perhaps it's an good idea to ask for an wiki account and adding everything you are missing from that page:
http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Users:Beginner_Developer%27s_FAQ
What I have done so far is download and compile babl, gegl and gimp from git (gegl without libavcodec, libavformat and v4l, gimp without ASCII art and webkit I think, both without documentation generation) and it seems to work. I didn't compile any of the dependencies from source, I installed newer versions from Debian unstable. I hope this is OK?
That's perfectly fine. I think most of the developers use Debian.
Can anyone point me to some easy bugs that need fixing or any other issue I could use to get started? Anything important I need to know (I already read through HACKING and parts of the developer FAQ that seemed relevant)?
You can look for bug with the "gnome-love" keyword in the bugzilla: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=keywords%3Agnome-love+product%3A%22GIMP%22+
That are bug that should be easy to fix. I would recommend to 1. Look for a bug you like to fix. 2. Talk to the developers on IRC about the bug. 3. Start coding.
Regards, Tobias
Interested in becoming a developer
And I forgot to that helping with GEGL is also always a good method to help with GIMP:
http://gegl.org/contribute.html
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 09:39, Tobias Jakobs wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 21:01, Ville Sokk wrote:
I'm a computer science student and I would like to help out with GIMP development. I have never been involved in an open-source project so a lot of the tools are new and unfamiliar to me and I might be slow and need guidance in the beginning.
The best thing is to meet the other developers in IRC and talk directly with them. Here you can find a wiki page with some informations for new developers. Perhaps it's an good idea to ask for an wiki account and adding everything you are missing from that page:
http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Users:Beginner_Developer%27s_FAQ
What I have done so far is download and compile babl, gegl and gimp from git (gegl without libavcodec, libavformat and v4l, gimp without ASCII art and webkit I think, both without documentation generation) and it seems to work. I didn't compile any of the dependencies from source, I installed newer versions from Debian unstable. I hope this is OK?
That's perfectly fine. I think most of the developers use Debian.
Can anyone point me to some easy bugs that need fixing or any other issue I could use to get started? Anything important I need to know (I already read through HACKING and parts of the developer FAQ that seemed relevant)?
You can look for bug with the "gnome-love" keyword in the bugzilla: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=keywords%3Agnome-love+product%3A%22GIMP%22+
That are bug that should be easy to fix. I would recommend to 1. Look for a bug you like to fix. 2. Talk to the developers on IRC about the bug. 3. Start coding.
Regards, Tobias
