On 23 April 2010 21:58, HyperQuantum <hyperquan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez > <lopeziba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This seems to be the question running around the blogosphere for >> several projects. And I would like to ask all people that read this >> list but hardly say or do anything. >> >> What reasons keep you from contributing to GCC? > > The lack of time, for the most part. For GCC there are other reasons as well:
Not even a sunday afternoon from time to time, instead of watching TV? ;-) > - the paperwork. I cannot just submit a patch if I feel like it. This you have to do once and it is done. > - not easy to find something to contribute. Stuff that is either not > interesting to me, or too difficult for me to easily get into. GCC is > a mature project, so there aren't much 'holes to fill' (at first > sight, for a beginner). There are a lot of mini-projects in the wiki: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode And many stupid bugs in bugzilla. I am sure that if you say what you would be interested to do, people will have a thousand mini-projects for you and some developers will offer to mentor you. > - the programming language. I don't have any experience with C, I only > know some things about it because it's a subset of C++. You said it is a subset! Precisely the controversy about moving to C++ (hey! you can find more mini-projects here: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/gcc-in-cxx ) is the other way around: People do not want to learn the new things of C++. If you know C++, you know 99% of C, then it is just getting used to what you cannot do in C. > And I'm also watching other projects. I cannot contribute to all. > Well, actually I don't contribute to any project right now. Since I > started programming for my day job I don't really feel like > programming in the evenings or weekends anymore. Before that I spent > most of my free time working on my own project, my programming > language. But now I don't even have time to work on that anymore. Fair enoug. But still, you are subscribed to this list. That must mean something ;-) Cheers, Manuel.
