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From: | Vishal Subbiah |
Subject: | Re: First Time Contributor help |
Date: | Thu, 22 May 2014 18:10:22 +0530 |
It is as easy as looking at some project you could help with (ask theOn Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Vishal Subbiah
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wish to contribute to octave as I have been using it for over a year now
> and find it very useful. I looked through the get-involved link on the
> website but I do not find it very helpful on how to contribute for the
> first time and seem to be going in circles. Could anyone help me get
> started?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Vishal Subbiah
> Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
> Second year undergraduate
> IIT Madras
list before starting, people might already be working on it) and code
away!
You can also go through the bugs tracker
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave
and try to fix something.
Make sure you read the coding style and how to create changesets
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Contributing-Guidelines.html
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/tip/etc/HACKING
http://wiki.octave.org/Mercurial#Creating_changesets_with_hg
http://wiki.octave.org/Commit_message_guidelines
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