Re: Cheers for GSOC

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Hao Zhang <bigzhanghao_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice to write to you! I'm so exciting to see that I have been accepted as a
> student for GSOC and you are my mentor. Thanks for all developers who voted
> me! And special thanks for your favor!
>
> I'm busy on my lab stuff these weeks and spent few time on our community,
> but I would love to push my work forwards just now.  May I ask for some help
> from you:
>
> 1.  Must I do my development on Linux? What about windows or cygwin?

We have people that develop everywhere. You should develop where you
are comfortable. Windows requires the most work to get the build
system setup, but Visual Studio is a very nice IDE to work and debug
in.

> 2. Is there any document on how to build on Eclipse? The resource from
> http://subversion.tigris.org/%c2%a0seems not enough.

Get Subclipse, get Eclipse CDT. When you checkout, you run a wizard
to checkout as a project and indicate you want to create a CDT
standard make project. You might want to turn off all the auto-build
stuff in Eclipse and just run configure/make from the command line.
But Eclipse gives a good editor and graphical debugger. If you are on
Windows, you should use Visual Studio though.

> 3. Could you please show some small issues or bugs fit for new comers to
> deal with and get familiar with the environment?

This page lists bite-sized coding tasks.

http://subversion.tigris.org/tasks.html

I think it is a great idea to try to tackle one or more of these to
get your feet wet and learn the patch submission process.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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