And I forgot to that helping with GEGL is also always a good method to help with GIMP: http://gegl.org/contribute.html On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 09:39, Tobias Jakobs <tobias.jakobs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 21:01, Ville Sokk <ville.sokk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm a computer science student and I would like to help out with GIMP >> development. I have never been involved in an open-source project so a >> lot of the tools are new and unfamiliar to me and I might be slow and >> need guidance in the beginning. > > The best thing is to meet the other developers in IRC and talk > directly with them. Here you can find a wiki page with some > informations for new developers. Perhaps it's an good idea to ask for > an wiki account and adding everything you are missing from that page: > > http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Users:Beginner_Developer%27s_FAQ > > >> What I have done so far is download and compile babl, gegl and gimp >> from git (gegl without libavcodec, libavformat and v4l, gimp without >> ASCII art and webkit I think, both without documentation generation) >> and it seems to work. I didn't compile any of the dependencies from >> source, I installed newer versions from Debian unstable. I hope this >> is OK? > > That's perfectly fine. I think most of the developers use Debian. > >> Can anyone point me to some easy bugs that need fixing or any other >> issue I could use to get started? Anything important I need to know (I >> already read through HACKING and parts of the developer FAQ that >> seemed relevant)? > > You can look for bug with the "gnome-love" keyword in the bugzilla: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=keywords%3Agnome-love+product%3A%22GIMP%22+ > > That are bug that should be easy to fix. I would recommend to 1. Look > for a bug you like to fix. 2. Talk to the developers on IRC about the > bug. 3. Start coding. > > Regards, > Tobias _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
