Interested in contributing
Hey I'm new, but I'd like to contribute to your organisation, can someone please guide me along? I have done some good amount of competetive programming in c++ and I am completely new to open source.
On 5/4/2015 7:07 AM, suryansh tiwari wrote:
Hey I'm new, but I'd like to contribute to your organisation, can someone please guide me along?
I have done some good amount of competetive programming in c++ and I am completely new to open source.
Look at the topics under http://www.boost.org/development/index.html and decide what you want to do. There are 120+ Boost libraries. Do you want to fix bugs, improve some library, submit a new Boost library or what ?
Actually i am completely a noob , I have never contributed in open source so i don't know what its like to fix a bug or improve some library or submit a new library. So I don't know where my interest lies, but I want to contribute something to your organization and I am completely dedicated towards it. It will be a lot kind if you tell me from where to start , like learning something extra, to get an idea about what should I work on.
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:50 AM, suryansh tiwari <suryansh677@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually i am completely a noob , I have never contributed in open source so i don't know what its like to fix a bug or improve some library or submit a new library.
So I don't know where my interest lies, but I want to contribute something to your organization and I am completely dedicated towards it.
It will be a lot kind if you tell me from where to start , like learning something extra, to get an idea about what should I work on.
When you are a student in school a teacher tells you where to start and what to study at each step along the way. But Boost or any other open source project is part of the real world, where you have to find your own way rather than follow some predetermined steps. You might want to search around on the web site to find out how Boost started and what the key ideas were, or you might want to follow Edward's excellent advice and read about Submissions, Reporting and Fixing Bugs, and all the other topics linked to from http://www.boost.org/development/index.html, or you might want to read through some developers mailing list threads on http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel to get an idea how the mailing list serves as the central coordinating mechanism. But whatever you do, you need to learn to follow your own interests! --Beman
thank you so much On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:50 AM, suryansh tiwari <suryansh677@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually i am completely a noob , I have never contributed in open source so i don't know what its like to fix a bug or improve some library or submit a new library.
So I don't know where my interest lies, but I want to contribute something to your organization and I am completely dedicated towards it.
It will be a lot kind if you tell me from where to start , like learning something extra, to get an idea about what should I work on.
When you are a student in school a teacher tells you where to start and what to study at each step along the way. But Boost or any other open source project is part of the real world, where you have to find your own way rather than follow some predetermined steps.
You might want to search around on the web site to find out how Boost started and what the key ideas were, or you might want to follow Edward's excellent advice and read about Submissions, Reporting and Fixing Bugs, and all the other topics linked to from http://www.boost.org/development/index.html, or you might want to read through some developers mailing list threads on http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel to get an idea how the mailing list serves as the central coordinating mechanism. But whatever you do, you need to learn to follow your own interests!
--Beman
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