From: Rob H. <rob...@gm...> - 2011-08-22 20:35:48
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Dear Terrel: As you read and stated back, there is always more room for developers! I am glad to hear that you are ready and willing to help where needed... Here is a little bit of documentation on your topic, and it would be great to read first... a) http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_you_can_help b) http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Programming_guidelines I would say that the best way to get started: 1) create an account on the bug tracker, here at http://bugs.gramps-project.org 2) Select Gramps-3.3.x from the Project drop- down at the top right corner of the screen... 3) Read what is available as in ways of bugs, and pick something that interests you... 4) dive in and fix it, once you have a good working example, create a patch file, and attach it to the bug report that you selected to possibly fix... 5) if no one responds to you within a reasonable amount of time, post a reminder with the bug # to this list... Always remember, that there is a great group of developers in Gramps, and don't be afraid to ask questions on this list! Hope that this helps... Sincerely yours, Rob G. Healey On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Terrel Shumway <pyt...@gm...>wrote: > I have been hacking with Python for quite a while (since 1.5.2) and really > love it. > > A long time ago, I fiddled with PAF and decided that while it was great for > what it was, it would certainly not cut it for serious research, mainly > because it lacked the ability to attach multiple sources and confidence > levels to each piece of data. I decided that I would write my own program > someday. Two days ago I installed Gramps and realized that I didn't have to > write my own program after all. yeah! I was even more pleased that it was > written in Python. double-yeah! > > I checked out the trunk and ran it, but I haven't looked much at the code > yet. > > Things that make me itch: > Gramps could be more keyboard-friendly. > The unit tests seem pretty skimpy > I would like to be able to paste a familysearch.org API link and have > it create a source, and import a reasonable amount of data based on that > source. > > I can probably put in about 5-10 hours/week for now. Are there any > bite-sized pieces you would like me to start on? > > -- Terrel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model > configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and > the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free > download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev > > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-devel mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-devel > > -- Sincerely yours, Rob G. Healey "Always surround yourself with people that inspire you to greatness!" |