Re: [Supertuxkart-devel] contributing to the game

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Hi Vandan,

thank you for your interest. Firstly I would recommend that you try to 
join our irc channel (#stk at irc.freenode.net). This way it's easier 
for us to discuss what you might want to do (though depending on time 
zone that might be difficult). Our most active times are probably around 
early evening US, late evening Europe, morning in Asia - though you will 
find some people there all the time.

The race history verifier was an old project suggestion for the Google 
Summer of Code. Our current bug list 
(https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code/issues) is probably a more 
up-to-date list of things we are interested in at this stage - though 
that does not mean that we won't take contributions in other areas of 
course ;)

Our GSoC overview page 
(http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/GSoC_overview) contains a lot of 
information on how to get you started (but as mentioned above, talking 
to us on #irc might be quicker). Note that the verifier project itself 
is not trivial, nor short (we had several applications, and if I 
remember correctly most missed the point, so if you are really want to 
get started with this, make sure to discuss this with us first, so that 
we can avoid you doing something that might in the end not be useful). 
And in order to make any use of it, we would also need work on our 
server to manage highscores, STK to display them etc.

I would recommend to start with some simpler tasks (e.g. bugs). If you 
let us know what you are interested in doing as a bigger contribution, 
we can help you find something that will expose you to the right area of 
code to allow you to familiarise yourself with it.

Cheers,
    Joerg


On 01/26/2015 02:24 AM, vandan wrote:
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> Hi there, I would like to contribute to the game , i have a reasonable 
> knowledge in python and C++. I would like to contribute to the race 
> history verifier as it has a single prerequisite of C++ knowledge. 
> could you please guide me on  how to get started.
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