[haiku-development] Re: New user here

Hi Kyle,

On 7/20/07, Kyle Smith <kylesmittie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I am a computer science student with an interest in operating systems, and I
would like to help out with this project. I can spend 10-15 hours per week
working on this project. I do not have any special experience, so feel free
to assign me to any task.


The first step in working on Haiku is downloading the source, getting
it built, and running your built Haiku image (usually in a virtual
machine like VMWare or QEMU.) This will get you going and allow you to
play with the system and get a feel for it.

I'm not sure if you have an older machine which can run BeOS, but
there is another option that quite a few of we Haiku developers are
using now: building and testing Haiku on Linux.

In fact I recently joined this group when I bought a new Dell with
Ubuntu Linux. In addition I *just* wrote a step-by-step "how to" on
the Haiku web-site that details how to get Haiku building on Ubuntu:

http://haiku-os.org/documents/dev/building_haiku_on_ubuntu_linux_step_by_step

In addition please read our Getting Started guide (though maybe you
already have since you are emailing here :) )

http://haiku-os.org/documents/dev/haiku_development_getting_started

Test the system and if you find a bug, see if you can fix it. If you
get it fixed, make sure you code follows our coding guidelines
(http://haiku-os.org/documents/dev/haiku_coding_guidelines), and then
follow the procedure for creating a patch
(http://haiku-os.org/development/faq#patches .)

I would recommend starting on something simple like a preference
application which is not properly sensitive to font size changes (use
the Font preferences to change the font size.) Actually if you run at
font size 18 there are a lot of these :)

Good luck and welcome aboard,
Ryan

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