Re: [fontforge-devel] Any help needed right now?

[Jose Da S. <di...@jo...>]

Hi David,
Start with small patches and improvements first instead of trying to tackle 
a big monster project. This comes with time as you get more familiar with 
the code. I agree, C is much more interesting.

You may want to take a top-down look (to see the forest), but probably try 
fix from a bottom-up approach. Top down approach can easily fix one thing and 
break something else (and there are times where the code flipped one way and 
then another) but doing a bottom-up approach, you can fix a number of lower-
level unstable functions that assume data is good (doesn't handle bad data 
well), and also misses a bit of housecleaning along the way.

Keep an eye for improvement, like making code thread-safe/re-entrant code, 
big/little endian, runs well on modern distros and if you can, older 
distros, big/little endian.