[haiku-development] Re: New user here

On 2007-07-21 at 02:23:13 [+0200], 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.

Welcome, Kyle!

If you haven't done that yet, following Ryan's suggestion to set up a build 
environment is definitely a good first step.

Regarding a task, we have a lot of open tasks in virtually all areas. But 
rather than just assigning you one, which you may not like, it would help to 
know, whether you have interests in particular operating system parts. If you 
want to learn more about how the system interacts with hardware devices, you 
could get your hands dirty writing (or porting) a driver. If you're curious 
about virtual memory management, we have would be glad to have someone to 
review the VM code and tackle a few tasks (e.g. a page scanner). There're are 
plenty of other kernel areas where a helping hand would be appreciated, but 
we're not lacking userland tasks either. E.g. if you find graphical layout 
management intriguing, I could serve with a job I don't really get to do and 
wouldn't mind giving to someone else. Lots of our open userland tasks are 
about fixing bugs and adding some missing features -- there's a great variety 
of those, though.

So, do you have areas you would be particularly interested in (or ones you 
wouldn't like to touch)?

CU, Ingo

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