Jade Misenas,

// I'm working on building GIMP from source right now, and once I get that going I'd be happy to verify bugs (and help improve reproduction instructions, where appropriate) and test patches.//

https://staff.banu.com/~muks/tmp/gimp-build-script.txt http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/gimpbuild.html http://lightningismyname.blogspot.in/p/compiling-gimp.html

These are some of place where you can find reference on building gimp. I would suggest build git-master.

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Jade Misenas wrote:

Hi,

I'm Jade. I am currently doing Hacker School in NY. Before programming, I have been using Gimp for a long time as a graphics designer but would really like to get involved now in development.

I'd like to start contributing to GIMP development, and thought I'd offer to help with testing first. I'm working on building GIMP from source right now, and once I get that going I'd be happy to verify bugs (and help improve reproduction instructions, where appropriate) and test patches.

Would anyone be willing to point me towards some good bugs/patches to get started? Specifically, I'm wondering: 1) Which branch of development code on https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/should I be building against? (And is
http://www.gimp.org/source/howtos/gimp-git-build.html still accurate?) 2) Are there any patches that people would like tested? I'm cmisenas on IRC and will hang out in #gimp most of the (New York) weekdays and would love to talk with folks who might be willing to get me started helping out.
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Jade Misenas wrote:

Hi,

I'm Jade. I am currently doing Hacker School in NY. Before programming, I have been using Gimp for a long time as a graphics designer but would really like to get involved now in development.

I'd like to start contributing to GIMP development, and thought I'd offer to help with testing first. I'm working on building GIMP from source right now, and once I get that going I'd be happy to verify bugs (and help improve reproduction instructions, where appropriate) and test patches.

Would anyone be willing to point me towards some good bugs/patches to get started? Specifically, I'm wondering: 1) Which branch of development code on https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/should I be building against? (And is
http://www.gimp.org/source/howtos/gimp-git-build.html still accurate?) 2) Are there any patches that people would like tested? I'm cmisenas on IRC and will hang out in #gimp most of the (New York) weekdays and would love to talk with folks who might be willing to get me started helping out.

Hi Jade,

That's much appreciated! Welcome :) Here is the list of bugs and patches:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=patchreport.html&product=GIMP&patch-status=none

Note, however, that probably not all of them make sense, so indeed it's best to hang around on IRC and ask someone like mitch and pippin about that.

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org