Re: [Rails-devel] Getting started

[Brett L. <wak...@gm...>]

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 16:51 -0700, Jeff Bowers wrote:
> Greetings all.  I downloaded Rails today to take a look at it and I
> can see that you've put in a lot of work.  I'm interested in
> contributing, and while I am an experienced programmer, I haven't used
> Java before and I haven't worked on an open source project.
> 
> Anyway, I installed Eclipse, downloaded the rails source, looked
> around a bit, found a bug and fixed it.  Now what?
> 
> The change is very minor.  On the 1870 map, hex H3 should be a small
> city hex.


Welcome aboard Jeff!

You're definitely on the right track. While you're getting familiar with
the codebase, please try to focus on fixing small-ish issues. 

For the first few changes, please send patches to the list. Unified diff
is the preferred format. Breaking up changes into logical chunks is also
recommended.

As soon as we've seen a few sets of patches from you, we can talk about
giving you direct commit access and letting you drive a bigger segment
of the changes. To give a tangible goal, I personally like to see at
least 3-5 patches.


 ---Brett.


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