On 01/02/2014 Tenzin Chhosphel wrote:
Although I have experience in several programming languages such as
C, Java, Objective-C, and so forth, I primary code in C++. So, as
OpenOffice is coded in C++, I think I can contribute to the project.
Welcome, Tenzin! There are lots of opportunities for a good C++
programmer to contribute to OpenOffice.
But you must start with the basics: please read
http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-development.html
and build OpenOffice. There are instructions at
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO
but feel free to ask the list if you have any difficulties, the first
build is often a bit painful since we use many non-standard tools.
I want to leave with few questions. I like to get to know more
specifics about current happenings, who is working on what, that sort
of thing. I also like to know which specific part of the project can
I contribute should I be a volunteer at OpenOffice. Thank you.
We don't have any specific preferences at the moment. Recent major
changes included the Sidebar (and I think Andre -Andre Fischer- may want
to extend it further), the Accessibility work by Steve Yin, the OOXML
filter improvements by Oliver-Rainer Wittmann with ongoing work by
Clarence for the OOXML export, graphics improvements by Armin Le Grand,
a lot of infrastructural work by Herbert Duerr and Juergen Schmidt,
dozens of small fixes and improvements by Hanya, the ongoing
localization work by Jan Iversen, and hundreds of other developments and
bugfixes that I'm not mentioning but are still very valuable. So I
recommend that you start by getting your own build ready, and then we
have thousands of bug reports you can choose from if you want to help
with coding! Just let us know when you manage to build.
Regards,
Andrea.
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