Welcome to the project! Let us know if you need help using any of the tools you said you weren't familiar with (Subversion, jam, etc) -Max Duane Ryan wrote: > 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 >> >> > > >