Hi, I’ve thought about this issue in the past too, and would be happy to help write some content or at least proofread / contribute tidbits to a guide for new developers.
As pointed out in this thread, a lot of Swift infrastructure and paradigms comes from the LLVM community, but spelling that out in a “Getting Started” guide would be nice. It’d also be worth gathering some tips & tricks for developing & debugging issues, using Xcode or otherwise. Would a Markdown document in the apple/swift repo be the best place for such a thing? On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:37 PM Halen Wooten via swift-dev < swift-dev@swift.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to start a discussion about getting started with the > Swift Compiler. The end goal is to see if there are ways we can help > newcomers to the compiler get started and more quickly grow into a > more effective contributor. The motivation is that I've had a > surprising amount of trouble with my starter bug. Swift is amazing and > I would love to contribute more regularly, but I also don't want to > burden the core team. > > I know that documentation on a huge project like this is a > non-starter, but I wonder if we could have better information on the > contribution process, which likely wouldn't change frequently. For > example, I learned through a conference talk that Swift uses LLVM's > lit testing. I couldn't find that in any of Swift's documentation. The > docs explain how to run tests, but not how to write them. I would be > happy to help out with documentation if we can decide on changes that > would be useful. > > Also, after I'm able to get my starter bug merged, I have no idea > where to go from there. I don't want to take another starter bug and > deprive someone else of the opportunity to contribute (although maybe > that's an unnecessary restriction I'm placing on myself), but I'm also > not in a place where I could take on something much larger. > > The learning curve for a compiler is always going to be high, but does > anyone have ideas on how we could assist newcomers with their first > starter bug and then transitioning into something larger? > > Thanks, > > Halen > _______________________________________________ > swift-dev mailing list > swift-dev@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev >
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