Contributing, where to start?

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I read this article http://www.xs4all.nl/~pmlans/studio-33/html/articles/Haiku_where_are_we_at.html and it made me want to try BeOS again after being a Linux-user for the last two years.

I’ve developed for BeOS before ( http://bebits.com/app/3131 ) and i was thinking about doing some GUI work. Maybe some preference applications or possibly even libinterface.

Does anyone know what i can do to start? Where i can find tasks that needs to be done (something specific please)

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sure … I’m the team leader of the Pref Apps …

if you’d like to go through this list and let me know which one you’d like to tackle, I’ll assign it to you and we can go from there.

http://haiku-os.org/contribute.php?mode=team_view&id=preferences

to browse the source, you can go here:-

http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/haiku/haiku/trunk/src/preferences/

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mariux wrote:
I read this article http://www.xs4all.nl/~pmlans/studio-33/html/articles/Haiku_where_are_we_at.html and it made me want to try BeOS again after being a Linux-user for the last two years.

I’ve developed for BeOS before ( http://bebits.com/app/3131 ) and i was thinking about doing some GUI work. Maybe some preference applications or possibly even libinterface.

Does anyone know what i can do to start? Where i can find tasks that needs to be done (something specific please)

You can check the status pages, but I think you’ll find that they’re extremely out of date.

http://haiku-os.org/learn.php?mode=status

and

http://haiku-os.org/contribute.php?mode=team_view&id=Preferences

Your best bet may be to get the source, build the thing, and start using it. You’ll probably see very quickly what’s there and what isn’t.

If you still have a BeOS R5 system available to you, that’s probably the environment that is easiest to build Haiku in.

Also, you’re going to get much better developer response from the mailing list(s) and the IRC channel

http://www.freelists.org/list/openbeos

and

http://haiku-os.org/learn.php?mode=faq_print&id=20

Hope that helps get you going in the right direction.

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Sikosis wrote:
sure ... I'm the team leader of the Pref Apps ...

Heh, you beat me to the post while I was still writing one :wink:

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Sikosis wrote:
sure ... I'm the team leader of the Pref Apps ...

if you’d like to go through this list and let me know which one you’d like to tackle, I’ll assign it to you and we can go from there.

http://haiku-os.org/contribute.php?mode=team_view&id=preferences

to browse the source, you can go here:-

http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/haiku/haiku/trunk/src/preferences/

Great, ill have a look at it and come back to you.