Re: Suggestions to a beginner.

[Carnë Draug]

On 13 May 2015 at 08:22, Sujay <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello everyone, I am Sujay.
> I am new to octave development. I ve been following the mailing list for a
> few days now and came across many similar threads but didn't feel like the
> question i am having has been answered.
> I ve used matlab and octave before for image processing and also
> implementing a few machine learning algorithms, so i am familiar with octave
> m-file coding. I am also fluent in C and C++.
> To familiarize myself with the process of submitting patches i ve submitted
> a simple change for the bug
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44831
> My main interest right now is the Octave-Forge image package (but would also
> like to work on octave core). I ve seen that there are many missing
> functions in the image package and i thought i would start there.
> I would like to be working in this community for a long time so please
> suggest a good place to start and also a few resources (I ve read most of
> the guidelines in wiki) that might help me .
> Thank You.
>

The best place to start is by fixing something that annoys you, or
implementing something that you need.  Octave and Octave Forge is a very
large project and there's many entry points.  So next time you miss
something, fix it and upload a patch to the bug tracker.

Carnë