Re: [core-dev] Where might one jump in?

Hi Tyler,

Welcome to LimeWire. :)

LimeWire has fleshed itself into a large mass of a program, but there's 
still lots of itches that need to be taken care of.  The best way, 
we've found, for someone to contribute is to use the program for 
awhile, see what irks you, and fix it.  Lots of great contributions 
have been added this way, such as look & feel tweaks for OSX, an entire 
file-corruption checking system, internationalization support, and my 
first offering: time remaining on downloads & uploads.

Of course, using the 'scratch an itch' paradigm generally leads to 
visual changes, which may not be your ball game.  If you prefer core 
changes, you're best off reading a bit about how Gnutella works ( some 
good documents at http://rfc-gnutella.sourceforge.net ), and joining 
the Yahoo Group "the_gdf" -- the Gnutella Developer's Forum.  There's a 
lot of documents in the gdf's files section, also.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of much.  Perhaps there are 
suggestions in LimeWire's forum, at 
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25656 .  
(That's the 'Feature Requests' sticky thread.)

zab_, by the way, is Zlatin Balevsky, one of the developers here at 
LimeWire.

Glad to have you on board!

Thanks,
  Sam


On Wednesday, July 21, 2004, at 12:44  AM, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:

> Howdy there, I talked to zab_ (no clue on real name) in the IRC 
> channel on
> irc.freenode.net, and I'm interested in screwing around with LimeWire, 
> and I'm
> wondering if any of you know stuff that kinda should get done, and has 
> a small
> learning curve
> (I'm a college student, a larger learning curve wouldn't kill 
> me....well, it
> might)
>
> Anyways, I've checked out the source from CVS already, I'm looking 
> through the
> gui classes just because Swing is still troublesome for me, but 
> anywhere I can
> help, I'm up for it. ;)
>
>
> -Tyler
>
> I figure that contributing will be easier than buying Pro :-P
> (I'm a student don't bother saying 'buy pro you weenie')
>
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