+100 On 10 Oct 2013, at 13:21, Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> wrote:
> One nice way to get in the mood of doing (and at the same time testing the > system) is to start > with trivial improvements. > > This is especially nice as a "starter" when you never contributed any change > to Pharo. > > And by trivial I mean *really* mean trivial: > -> a typo in a comment > -> remove a temp not accessed > -> clean out some trivial dead code > -> do a simplistic refactoring of a bad smell, even inside a single > method > -> document something > -> structure bad stuff better so it is easier to replace later > > Taken in itself, single changes like these have no influence, but: > > -> they get you in a mood of doing. > -> they make you feel that Pharo is "owned" by you. > -> take 1000 of those trivialities and they *do* make a difference. > -> next time something bothers you, you will have the context of "I can > just fix it". > > The critic tools is one way of finding these places, another is to just note > down every time > you see a triviality and later go through that list. The bug tracker can be > source, too. > > > <wtfm.jpg> > > Marcus
