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Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 22:56 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:52:04 -0600 Michael Sullivan |
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>> <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> | > I have been doing most recruits lately. There has always been a |
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>> | > steady flow of good people wanting to become devs so that is not a |
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>> | > problem. The biggest problem is having enough people interested in |
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>> | > guiding new people and making sure they have good enough skills. |
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>> | I would like to help with coding/debugging packages for Gentoo. I |
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>> | have some programming experience on a very small scale. I have an |
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>> | Associates of Computer Science from a small community college, and |
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>> | I've never had a job working for a software company. You spode of |
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>> | "good enough skills"; I don't think I have good enough skills to help |
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>> | with Gentoo, but I'd like to. Where should I start? |
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>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/ |
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> I mean where do I start improving my skills? I've looked at source code |
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> from Gentoo packages that was written in C (I know the basics of C) and |
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> it made no sense to me. I found the experience quite overwhelming. Is |
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> there a place I can start training myself to work on big projects? |
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It once again depends on what you want to do. If you want to write |
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docs, you probably need to learn GuideXML. |
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If you want to fix broken ebuilds you will need to know bash pretty well. |
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If you want to work on portage (trust me you don't, but IF you did) |
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you'd want to know python fairly well. |
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If you want to work on a specific set of applications, you will need to |
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know about those applications. kde, pam, bsd, multimedia apps, |
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etc...;each section has it's own set of moreys and 'how most |
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applications work'. |
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In general you need to know about Linux, how it works in a broad sense, |
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and how to use it. You can learn some of the specifics along the way; |
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Myself? I'm an annoying portage guy, but I also fix broken packages and |
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occasionally participate in QA fixes and revbumps for things that aren't |
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maintained by anyone else. I know some bash (not as much as I'd like) |
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and I know C++ and python. I am not a guru of anything (not even |
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portage) but I try and help out where I feel I can contribute meaningfully. |
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