Re: Getting involved in meld development

[David Rabel <David Rabel NoreSoft com>]

Hi Kai,

thank you very much for your Email!



On 30.08.2015 01:12, Kai Willadsen wrote:
> On 28 August 2015 at 03:36, David Rabel <David Rabel noresoft com> wrote:
>
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I'm using meld a lot and like it a lot. I'm a software developer and I
> > want to get involved in meld development to return something to the
> > community. Is there something like a point to start or easyhacks to get
> > into the code easier?
>
> There wasn't! but there is now. I've just gone through to try and find
> easier bugs, and while I've come up fairly thin, I've marked a few things
> with the 'gnome-love' keyword:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&keywords=gnome-love%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=57976&product=meld&query_format=advanced

Cool, thank you. I'll have a look at those and play around with the code
a little bit. The next days (or maybe weeks) will be busy for me. But
you hear from me as soon as I have got questions. ;)

> ...
> And btw, there is one feature that I really really miss in meld and
> > that's to collapse equal lines in file diff. (Or did I just not find out
> > how it works yet?)
> > I don't know if you want such a feature or not. But if so and after
> > getting to know the code a littler more I would love to work on
> > implementing something like this.
>
> I'd be interested in seeing this. For me, the blocking issue for a feature
> like this is always going to be: how will this be exposed to the user?
> There's an old bug report asking for (I think) pretty much what you're
> suggesting (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664624) so maybe
> check that out in case it helps at all.

Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind.

> ...

Regards,
  David