[openbeos] Re: Apply for haiku development
- From: Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:16:20 -0400
naaina wrote:
Hello guys,
I would like to contribute to the development of Haiku. Approx. 2 years
ago I had
some contact to DarkWyrm to help with the app_server / AppKit, but due
to unsafe
living conditions I was not able to start. At that time I purchased the
book by O'reilly
about BeOS developement and now, I finally started to build up a project
enviroment
here at home. BTW, which version of BeOSMAX shall I use?
Welcome back! I haven't tried Max4 yet, but I would doubt that it is a
regression from 3 which I have used for years. So either of those should be
fine. ;-D
I code in C / C++ and x86 ASM since 7 years and have special experience in
graphical development, mostly with 2D algorithms and their optimization.
I coded some
intros / demos for the art- & demoscene the last years over. I am also
experienced
in GUI developement / interface design - coded the last years in
WinAPI/FLTk and VCL,
and finally I started with my own GUI. I work with SVN since the
beginning and have
a good understanding of compilers and build tools (I also worked with
Jam, as you
use it).
You sound like a good candidate! :-)
I'm 24 years old and from the north-west part of Germany and currently I
got 12
hours / week to spend on the development. There is nothing specific I
want to work
on. I guess I have to learn and read some basics first, so I "wish" a
task I can easily
start with.
Since we are pretty much code complete in the UI, most of what is left is
bug fixes. Our bug tracker is at: bugs.haiku-os.org ; here is the URL for a
query of just the app_server bugs:
http://dev.haiku-os.org/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&group=milestone&component=Servers%2Fapp_server&order=priority
Personally, I would do an svn checkout, do a build, test that build (to
make sure that you have a "known good" build - occasionally someone does
break the build), then try to fix one of the existing bugs.
Michael
Best regards,
André
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