Hi Brendan! Welcome aboard. On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:24:51 -0400 Liam R E Quin <liam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2020-06-19 at 17:39 +0000, Brendan via gimp-developer-list > wrote: > > Hi, > > With everything that is going on, I have found myself with a lot of > > free time and would like to help with development. I have experience > > in software engineering but have never worked on an open source > > project. Please let me know what I can do to help. > > Best is to start by building gimp from source. If you run into > difficulties (this is not uncommon, don't worry) or if you succeed, > then find an IRC client and join irc.gnome.org in the #gimp channel > where the developers tend to be found. > > Liam > Sounds like good advice and I'd like to note that I have created a tool to automate part of that task: https://metacpan.org/release/App-gimpgitbuild I'd be happy to hear any success or failure stories with using it. On a more general note, I have provided some guidance for people who wish to become FOSS contributors here: * https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/how-to-start-contributing/ Good luck! -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ https://shlomifishswiki.branchable.com/Encourage_criticism_and_try_to_get_offended/ I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. — https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar_%28play%29 Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
