On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 20.03.2012 15:15, schrieb amanjot singh: > > And im new to all this deelopment thing and GSoC too, so i mean, how and >> where do i start? >> > > I am guessing you mean you are new to developing for/under Haiku? Your > best starting points are probably http://www.haiku-os.org/guides and > http://www.haiku-os.org/**development<http://www.haiku-os.org/development> > . > Yes, i am new to Haiku development. I have read the first guide but not the second. And to contribute i just have to write the code in c or c++ or python and make it runnable in haiku right? Or is there some special sort of developer for Haiku? > > If you mean you are new to coding in general, I am not sure if GSoC would > be a good program for you to participate in. I think in practice is does > require a decent amount of coding skills to be successful. As you can see > on our ideas page, pretty much everything says development skills are > required. Other participating organizations mostly also require coding > skills and test it for example by requiring patches to be submitted (as > does Haiku). > > Best regards, > -Stephan > > And i was told to see the source code for other editors. Other editors you mean like gedit? And due to time restrictions and my being new to all this, i couldn't solve any bugs. So, i wont be selected in GSoC most probably, i am basically submitting a proposal for selection in Haiku Code Drive. Am i on the right track?