On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Tenzin Chhosphel <chhos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Andre, > I had no problems building OpenOffice, it was flawless. It just took > several hours (like over 10) just like it says in the building guide page. I > am also a math minor and fond of numbers, so I prefer any work related to > numeral computation. But, if not, other areas sound interesting too. My goal > is to gain some experience working in a huge real world project like > OpenOffice as well as contribute to the open source world. I am planning to > work on OpenOffice at least for the remaining of my college career, which is > over a year. So something that I can work for a long time will be nice. >
Hi Tenzin, This sounds great! OpenOffice is a big code base, so you'll probably want to start simple. We do have some items in our Bugzilla tracker that are marked as "easy hacks" : https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?f1=cf_fix_difficulty&list_id=122701&o1=equals&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&v1=easy These are good to start on. There are also ones slightly more challenging, "simple hacks": https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?f1=cf_fix_difficulty&list_id=122702&o1=equals&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&v1=simple A different approach is to jump right in on our 4.1 bug list, see if you can debug a crash, e.g.: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=123501 It shouldn't be too hard to reproduce that in a debugger and get a stack for the crash. On the numeric side, you can look at spreadsheet formula related issues by searching in Bugzilla. There are also some recent issues related to our CoinMP integration, which we use for linear programming optimization: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124115 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124158 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124157 Pedro knows that area well and might be able to give you some hints. Longer term I'd love to see more of the CoinMP routines integrated. I think a non-linear solver would be a big hit. Regards, -Rob > Tenzin > On Feb 7, 2014, at 4:32 AM, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 06.02.2014 20:37, Tenzin Chhosphel wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I had previously introduced myself and subscribed to the dev list with >>> another email. But, I'll be using this e-mail: chhos...@gmail.com from now >>> on so I am reintroducing myself shortly. I am Tenzin Chhosphel from New >>> York City. I am currently a computer science major at City College - CUNY, >>> a rising senior. I have hands-on experience on multiple languages: C, >>> Objective-C, Java, etc. but I primarily code in C++. I have successfully >>> built OpenOffice on Ubuntu 12.04 >> >> Great. Did you experience any problems that should be handled in the >> building guide? >> >>> and ready for coding, debugging, and woking. So what projects can I >>> contribute, where can I get started? >> >> OpenOffice has a wide range of features that include areas like graphics, >> text processing, numerical computations, database etc. If you tell us a >> little about your interests and goals then we can probably find something >> for you to work on. >> >> -Andre >> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Tenzin >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
