Re: searching a project to contribute to

2005-10-10 Thread Scott David Daniels
Mike Meyer wrote: > Well, if there's some software you use on a regular basis, that's a > good start. Python itself is a candidate. If the goal is just to > contribute, start going through the bugs database, and see if you can > contribute patches that fix some of the reporrted bugs. That's excell

Re: searching a project to contribute to

2005-10-10 Thread Ido Yehieli
Thank you all for your advice, I currently have several offers that I'm really tempted about - I will take a closer look at both of them (as well as continue searching) and will make an educated decision within the next few days. I've also decided to get rid of the sily pseudonym... -- ht

Re: searching a project to contribute to

2005-10-09 Thread Robert Kern
Clint Norton wrote: > Hi all, > I'm a student currently in the beginning of my master's degree and > I'm searching for an interesting open source project written in Python > to contribute to. > I have worked as a programmer for the past few years (mostly in > academia but also as a typical

Re: searching a project to contribute to

2005-10-09 Thread Clint Norton
Well, I meant python modules offcourse ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: searching a project to contribute to

2005-10-09 Thread Mike Meyer
"Clint Norton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, > I though about it but I'm looking for something a little more > interesting then bug fixing... Bug fixing is an easy way to start learning the code and providing an immediate contribution to the project. As for interesting - you gotta pick

Re: searching a project to contribute to

2005-10-09 Thread Peter Decker
On 9 Oct 2005 18:16:32 -0700, Clint Norton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, > I though about it but I'm looking for something a little more > interesting then bug fixing... > Anyway, wouldn't it be to difficult to get into a huge project like > python itself? Wouldn't it be a better idea to w

Re: searching a project to contribute to

2005-10-09 Thread Clint Norton
Well, I though about it but I'm looking for something a little more interesting then bug fixing... Anyway, wouldn't it be to difficult to get into a huge project like python itself? Wouldn't it be a better idea to walk into a project that only have a few developers in it? I was thinking of

Re: searching a project to contribute to

2005-10-09 Thread Mike Meyer
"Clint Norton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > I'm a student currently in the beginning of my master's degree and > I'm searching for an interesting open source project written in Python > to contribute to. > I have worked as a programmer for the past few years (mostly in > academia

searching a project to contribute to

2005-10-09 Thread Clint Norton
Hi all, I'm a student currently in the beginning of my master's degree and I'm searching for an interesting open source project written in Python to contribute to. I have worked as a programmer for the past few years (mostly in academia but also as a typical full time code monkey in a comme