Re: Programming

[Reinhard Müller]

Hello, and welcome!

Brahim Mouhdi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to help this project by programming stuff. How does one go
> about it?


The first step is always becoming familiar with what is there now. The 
current components of GNUe can be developed quite independently of each 
other, so you will probably pick one of the basic components you want to 
concentrate on. As you are experienced with C, you might want to have a 
look at GEAS, the Application Server, which is written in C.

There have been a lot of changes since version 0.0.6, which is the 
latest release, so you will probably want to download the current CVS 
version. You find instructions to do so on http://www.gnuenterprise.org

If you have problems with downloading, configuring, compiling, or 
understanding GEAS, we are reachable nearly 24 hours a day in IRC at 
irc.openprojects.net channel #gnuenterprise. If you don't have access to 
IRC, you can write a mail to address@hidden which is a mailing 
list specialized for the Application Server.

Of course other parts of GNUe also need help, so if you are (for 
example) interested in GUI programming, you could help out with the 
front end (GNUe Forms). Be aware that most parts of GNUe except GEAS are 
written mainly in Python, not in C. But our experience is that Python 
can be learned very quickly.

As soon as you have gotten an overview of the whole thing, you can pick 
a task you want to work on (some tasks are documented in the TODO file 
which you find among the sources, and some tasks certainly exists that 
we haven't even found out that they should be done ;))

When you start to contribute real code, we will ask you to assign 
copyright to the Free Software Foundation, which is the official 
copyright holder for the whole project.


> Currently i'm employed as a software engineer and mostly work with C and
> Unixes. I would
> say i'm a medior programmer, i have not reached nirvana yet :).
> Hope to hear from someone soon.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Brahim Mouhdi



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