Re: I want to join GNOME

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

Welcome Manish,

> Since the GNOME page mentions that one must introduce oneself to the
> others via the mailing list, here it is

It does? Don't think it's a must, but a recommendation. But then, I
haven't had a look at those pages in a long time... ;)

[...]
> I want to work as a GNOME developer and contribute.

Great. :)

> The only thing i expect in return is some guidance on how to get started
> (ie how to get the entire GNOME code from CVS and how to compile it etc)
> Please help a hacker join the community

You likely got the wrong list. gnome-love [1] is more appropriate in
this case. Oh, and please subscribe to mailing lists, before posting.

Since you are already here: GARNOME [2] is a build utility to build the
entire Desktop (stable as well as latest unstable releases) from
tarballs, rather than CVS. If you don't want to hack on the *entire*
Desktop but a few apps, using GARNOME for your system and building those
apps from CVS only might be a good idea. Keeps you sane and doesn't
break the Desktop every now and then... ;)

If you really want to build the entire Desktop from CVS (and falling
victim to the depravities of CVS ;) you should have a look at jhbuild.

In either case, welcome and have a lot of fun.

...guenther


[1] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
[2] http://gnome.org/projects/garnome/


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