Re: Looking to help

On 2007-03-08 at 18:01:59 [+0100], Morgan Howe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Morgan, and I'd like to try and help with Haiku.

Be welcome! :-)

>  I have around 2
> years of C/C++ experience, and I currently work as a C# developer.  My main
> area of interest is kernel, drivers, filesystems, etc.  Unfortunately, I do
> not have any experience in those areas to speak of aside from reading and
> small test projects and whatnot.
> 
> I am not a former beos user or anything so noble.  My interest in Haiku
> stems from wanting to get involved in some form of kernel development, and
> Haiku looks like a promising project with a more friendly/encouraging
> community than most.  I have Haiku running in Qemu,

If you're using some Linux distribution VMWare might even be a better choice. 
At least I find it to be faster and more robust.

> and am currently working
> on pulling everything from SVN. (That takes a while. :)

It shouldn't be *that* bad either. Just don't make the mistake to pull the 
whole repository. You'll only need the "trunk" of buildtools and haiku.

>  If you have any
> suggestions for ways I could get my feet wet, so to speak, I am eager to
> hear them.  I have followed the thread earlier this month from Jan et al, so
> I know some of the possibilities, I just wanted to make sure you all know
> that whatever task I work on may be slow-going at first.  :)

Sure. I wouldn't advise to start with one of the tasks we proposed to Jan and 
his colleagues; those were chosen because they would roughly fit the 3 x 8 
weeks student time. One or two task taking a few days max should be better 
suited to get you started. I don't have anything like this among my open 
tickets, but I'm sure Axel will have more than enough tasks.

CU, Ingo

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