[Ilugc] Guidance for open source development
- From: yogeshg1987@xxxxxxxxx (Yogesh Girikumar)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 14:56:30 +0530
2011/6/30 Babu Poomalai <pbabu12 at gmail.com>
Hi,
I wish to involve myself in open source development. I am more
comfortable in C++ and Java. As I'm a novice to this world, i don't where
to
start my contribution. Please provide me a guidance.I am interested to do
any projects of the above platform.
Attempt to explain in a nutshell:
There are lots of projects "hosted" in so called "repositories" that hold
various versions of source code. You use a "version control system" to check
the code out (download) and then after making modifications, you push it
back into the repository (check-in).
Contributions can be anything. Some are:
* Bug reports / fixes (You'll need to look into "bug tracker" for the
project !
* Patches
* Documentation (of the final product as well as the internals like any
APIs, etc.) and translations
Search for terms you don't understand. HTH.
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