Welcome to the project, Ed. Don't sweat the lack of C++ experience. Not everything is in C++, and you can pick up the C++ knowledge as you go. I'm in a little bit of the same boat, as I *was* a C++ programmer - about 15 years ago. It's been quite a while for me, so I'm going to have to basically relearn C++ to get into AOO development. But hey, it'll be a fun experience in it's own right anyway!
As to the rest of your questions, I'll defer to other more experienced members of the project to offer their commentary. Cheers, Phil This message optimized for indexing by NSA PRISM On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Ed Fallin <edfal...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Hello there — > > Having read an article in Ars about your difficulties keeping a large > group on the project, I’d like to join. It looks like you have a C++ code > base, whereas my experience is primarily in C#. I have touched on and read > upon C++ though. My day job is a dev in a C# base, and I’m doing some of > my own stuff in that technology of an evening, primarily web-facing with an > emphasis on using abstraction and design to enhance feature sets with fewer > lines of code. I’ve been programming professionally for about 5 years, I > follow the principles of clean code and TDD in my work. > > I’m located in California, SoCal to be specific. > > C# notwithstanding, if you’d value my joining your work, I’d like to do a > little bit here and there at first to get solid in C++, avoiding memory > leaks and so on (if those are still an issue — is there a GC now?), perhaps > with let’s say "enhanced review” from a tolerant mentor. As time goes by I > could address bigger topics with minimal support. > > Is this reasonable? Helpful? > > Someone please let me know! > > — Ed Fallin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
