thanks much! I hope to be contributing soon :) On 8/16/07, Salvatore Benedetto <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Duane and welcome! > > On 8/16/07, Duane Ryan <bailey.d.r@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So, how can I help? You can contact me at this email address, > > bailey.d.r@xxxxxxxxxx > > You can start by choosing an area you'd like to work on and start coding. > Better yet, you can have a look at the bugtrack http://dev.haiku-os.org/ and > try to fix some bugs. > > Coding guidelines are very important in open source projects, especially > in this one! I struggled a bit at the beginning, Michael can confirm ;-) so > I suggest you to read the following carefully > http://haiku-os.org/documents/dev/haiku_coding_guidelines > > Once you have made modification to the source, you can create a patch > by issuing the command "svn diff > mypatch.diff" , make sure to run svn > update first. > If you are new to svn I suggest you to read this > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.tour.cycle.html > > Once the patch is done, you can email it to the right mailing list so an > Haiku dev > can review it and eventually commit it for you. > > Regards > Salvo > > -- > Salvatore Benedetto (a.k.a. emitrax) > Student of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering > University of Messina (Italy) > www.messinalug.org >