Re: [pdf-devel] Hello !

[gerel]

 > Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:07:32 +0200
 > From: Renaud Aubin <address@hidden>
 > 
 > Hi folks,
 > 
 > I've just subscribed to the ML... This mail is just to say Hello (as 
 > specified ;) )

Hi and welcome Renaud.

 > I'm a ConTeXt user (with small contributions) since several years. The 
 > native output of this TeX engine is pdf and I'm really interested in 
 > contributing to the dev of a pdf GNU lib and viewer... I've worked a on 
 > a custom ConTeXt module to embbed u3d stream into pdf (from adobe specs).

Nice, I'm sure that knowledge is useful for you to get into the gnupdf library.

 > My programming skills covers C/C++, Java, perl, ruby, bash and I work 
 > under debian amd64.

Right now we're doing mostly C with a bit of perl/awk/bash for small scripts.

My recommended steps to start contributing is as follows,

1. Get a copy of the trunk
 http://gnupdf.org/Dev:Newcomers#Getting_a_copy_of_the_sources
2. Get familiar with the library
 http://gnupdf.org/Dev:Newcomers#Getting_familiar_with_the_library
3. Read our coding conventions
 http://gnupdf.org/Dev:Newcomers#Getting_familiar_with_our_coding_conventions
4. Look for a "NEXT" task on flyspray, our task manager. (though I feel we need 
a human one too :-P )
 http://www.gnupdf.org/flyspray
5. Tell us what task you would like to start, so we make sure you don't get 
eaten by the earth along the way. :-)
6. Start hacking !!!

BTW, If you're not familiar with the GNU coding standards,
 http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards
it's not a thing to worry now.

cheers,
and feel free to ask anything.

-gerel