[haiku-development] Re: Google Code-In task ideas

  • From: "Adrien Destugues" <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:11:56 +0100

"Jürgen Wall" <x-otic@xxxxxxx> a écrit :
> > Von: "Adrien Destugues" <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > > Totally agreed!
> > > A developers guide along with the users guide, right at hand on
> > > the
> > > desktop.
> >
> > installoptionalpackages BeBook
> >
> > (and as John Scipione now has commit access, expect an Haiku Book
> > next
> > to it soon :))
>
> Maybe I'm wrong but the Haiku Book as well as BeBook is meant to be
> an API documentation, which is quite a different thing than a hands-on
developers guide. It doesn't teach you how to modify, bugfix or add
enhancements in Haiku internals.

It's a bit more than that, with in-depth introduction of the way to use
stuff.

"Getting Started" guides are available on the haiku-os.org website, but
it currently lacks a bit of structure. This is also being worked on,
although on a low priority for now. (userguide first ! :))

--
Adrien.

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