[Bf-committers] Re: 64 bits Blender

[pangelo at dcc.online.pt]

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 21:43 -0500, Jingyuan Huang wrote:
> The Blender Janitor project would be perfect for people like me who
> would like to contribute but are still new to the application.
> 
> I have been reading mailing list for a little while and reading some
> parts of the blender code as well as wiki. Unfortunately I haven't
> written any patches though I do have some vague ideas in my mind. I'm
> also a bit hesitant whether to start coding or not due to my lack of
> knowledge (it's hard for new devs to identify the difficulty of a
> problem and the time line for it.) It would be nice if there's a
> special to-do list with relatively simple problems and new developers
> can start with those tasks first.

So I see I'm not the only one :)

Actually, as far as I can tell, there's no shortage of small coding jobs
and bugfixes that can be tackled by developers new to the Blender
codebase. For example, you can check the bugtracker
<http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?atid=125&group_id=9&func=browse>
or this report about a recent statical analysis of Blender
<http://www.blender.org/bf/20061123_report.txt>

What I feel is needed is some guidance to new developers on how to go
about getting to know the source and start fixing things. 

Cheers,
p.

> On 1/19/07, pangelo at dcc.online.pt <pangelo at dcc.online.pt> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've been looking for some time now for a good project to start grokking
> > the blender sources and this message reminded me of the "Kernel
> > Janitors" project <http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/>.
> >
> > Starting a similar "Blender Janitors" project could be a good way to
> > both attract new developers and improve the quality of submitted code.
> >
> > However, this would require the involvement of at least a couple of very
> > experienced Blender hackers to guide the new coders around the sources
> > and review all the patches.
> >
> > I'm willing to help set this up if anyone thinks it could be a good
> > idea.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Pedro Ângelo
> > pangelo at dcc.online.pt
> >
> >
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