Projects for newcomers

Carlos O'Donell carlos@systemhalted.org
Fri Apr 27 15:38:00 GMT 2012


On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes
<luis.strano@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was talking with Carlos O'Donell on IRC and he asked me to e-mail
> the list with this, basically I was trying to take a look around and
> to find projects that would be suitable for newcomers (smaller sized,
> more self contained, etc.).
>
> Searching through the wiki leads us to a few pages that are empty,
> such as the Generic TODO list:
> http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Development_Todo/Generic
>
> Carlos' list seems to be maintained, but there are two other lists
> linked that have last been updated in 2008:
> http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/RyanScottArnoldWishlist
> http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/AgnerWishlist
>
> It would be really interesting to have this kind of information more
> easily available (and hopefully kept up to date).
>
> If people point out the possible projects and ways for newcomers to
> get started (possibly even pointing out bugzilla links for stuff that
> is already registered there), I would be more than glad to also update
> this info on the Wiki (and try to clean it up a bit).

I've updated the wiki with a "Small Projects" page that lists the
smaller things that need help with.

http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/SmallProjects

Does any of that interest you?

Cheers,
Carlos.



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