Thank you sir for your quick reply. These links will be really helpful to get started. I will go through tutorials and try to use LyX as end user and also try to understand structure of LyX code base. I will try to solve few bugs and will reply you when I will be ready to go ahead.
regards, Mitul On 2/27/14, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mitul, > > Welcome to LyX! > > It's great to hear you're interested in participating in GSOC 2014 > with us. First of all, are you familiar with LyX itself as a user? If > not, I would recommend start using it, and perhaps going quickly > through the tutorial. That will give you an idea of its general > structure and will help get you well-acquainted with insets, which are > used throughout the program, and which are the main target of the > project you are interested in. The second step is to get to know > LyX's code base. In that respect, a good starting point is our bug > tracker [1]. Several bugs are marked "easyfix" and provide excellent > entry points to begin working on the code. Developers documentation is > available on our wiki as well at [2]. Ask question on the developers > list on how to proceed and be sure to check out the beginner > developers FAQ [2]. > > > Cheers, > > Stefano > > [1] http://www.lyx.org/trac/ > [2] http://www.lyx.org/DevFAQ > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Mitul Modi <mitulmod...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am Mitul Modi. I am currently pursuing my B.E. degree in Computer >> Engineering and presently in 3rd ( pre-final ) year. I would like to >> contribute to LyX in GSOC 14. >> >> I have good knowledge of C/C++, JAVA and Qt framework. >> >> I have read IDEA page for GSOC 2014 and I am interested to contribute >> to project : " Implement 3-box drawing of insets". Since it is >> mentioned that C++ and Qt are prerequisites I am looking forward to >> work on this project. If someone can give more details and some >> guidance on how to start it will be really helpful. >> >> Thank you. > > > > -- > __________________________________________________ > Stefano Franchi > Associate Research Professor > Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 > Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 > College Station, Texas, USA > > stef...@tamu.edu > http://stefano.cleinias.org >
