On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:21 PM, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote: > On 14 January 2013 20:01, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-development.html >> >> The idea here is to have a dev-focused introduction page that works >> along side the similar pages we have for Marketing and QA. This is >> the first draft. I already see a few typos, so don't worry about >> those. But I am looking for more content. >> > I like the idea that we have a document like this, a few remarks to content: > - The building guide you refer to is outdated (see first line), and many of > the other building guides are not complete. >
Is there a building guide that is more up to date than the one I linked to? > - since not all programmers are fluent in all languages, it would be nice > to have a list of which languages are used where...otherwise it becomes > complicated to pick an "easy task". > Maybe when someone marks an issue as an "easy task" they add a comment in Bugzilla giving some hints like where to start looking, etc. > - It would also be nice to give a short introduction to debugging, which is > far from easy (again split on languages/tools). > I'd love to have that information, if anyone has a link? But I think that is the catch-22: Our dev doc is poor, but it takes volunteer dev time to improve the doc. But we need more volunteers. And that requires good doc. So maybe this becomes a bootstrapping process, where we gather feedback from the initial dev volunteers and use that to improve the doc. In any case, I don't have the deep knowledge here. I'm mainly helping gather it into one place in a consumable form. So improving this will require help from a veteran developer, either up front, or later after answering repeated questions on the mailing list. Regards, -Rob > rgds > Jan I > > >> >> What else should we put here? Any other links? Any other startup tasks? >> >> -Rob >>
