Re: [gnome-love] Introduction......

[John Hornbeck <hornbeck freeshell org>]

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 11:55, Elijah P Newren wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 21:51 -0500, John Hornbeck wrote:
> > Hello, my name is John Hornbeck.  I have been a GNOME user for a few
> > years and have always wanted to help in some way.  I am finally getting
> > the know how and the time to try and help out.  If someone could point
> > me in the direction of a project that needs help in someway or if there
> > is something specific that needs to be done, please let me know.  I can
> > write docs, test software, build packages, and I can code somewhat and I
> > am good at reading code for errors.  Hope I can be of help to someone.
> > John Hornbeck
>
> Hi, and welcome.  :-)
>
> Sometimes the hardest part about getting started is determining what
> exactly you want to help with.  It's unlikely that any GNOME project
> would turn you away if you started helping, so it's really a matter of
> determining what your abilities and interests are.  However...
>
> Since you mention docs as well as coding, yelp or gnome-doc-utils may be
> a great place for you to start (as well as other things the GNOME
> documentation project might have).  Shaun (the GNOME Documentation
> Project Fearless Leader) has been looking for people to help him out
> with those projects and he's willing to help people get started.



> As for testing software which you also mention, joining the bugsquad may
> be another route.  (They tend to do more triaging than bug testing, but
> testers are obviously welcome)
>
> We also have an assortment of (mostly coding oriented) task lists at
> http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GNOMELove, which can provide a
> starting point for you.  In particular, there's a GNOME Keyring Manager
> project that was started specifically as a project to attract
> contributions from new people.
>
> Let me also note (since you also brought up packaging) that there was
> once a Gnome Packaging Project as well.  It's about as dead as a
> doornail and should really be removed from the various GNOME project
> listings, but if you were really interested you could talk to some
> people about reviving it.
>
> Let us know if any of those interest you.
>
> Elijah

I am most intested in writing docs and packageing at the moment.  I work
on a gentoo system, but I can get another machine up and running any
distro to test things out.  I have tried working through bugs before but
I don't think I have every really done it right.  If there is someone to
guide me a few steps on bugs I will attack that.  Basicly I can do
almost any of it and am willing to.  I can code but would rather not go
that route right now as I am not very confident in myself on that
aspect.  I guess just point me to something and say go.
John

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