From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF130138010 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:35:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 358AB21C004; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:35:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wp065.webpack.hosteurope.de (wp065.webpack.hosteurope.de [80.237.132.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDBD7E0459 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:34:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from g224050165.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.224.50.165] helo=[192.168.25.10]); authenticated by wp065.webpack.hosteurope.de running ExIM with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) id 1TLxMW-0000e6-QT; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:34:17 +0200 Message-ID: <5075875D.1030309@ccube.de> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:34:05 +0200 From: mindrunner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120913 Thunderbird/15.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Want to start open source development References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;kernel@ccube.de;1349879658;f907ae58; X-Archives-Salt: 6fe5d084-d4f8-41e9-9185-91a27f9fb2ed X-Archives-Hash: d2e3951e25e7a81dae65ac9d79eae12c Hi, I think google can help you making the first steps. There are many efforts to recruit new open source contributors. You will find many documents like this: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/How_to_start_contributing_to_or_using_Open_Source_Software or this https://live.gnome.org/GnomeUniversity or this http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2012/07/10/how-to-recruit-open-source-contributors/ But if you are as lazy as I am, you will just browse to you favourite open source tool and begin evaluating the bugtracker. Another way is to simply use your linux and the software on it. You WILL find TONS of bugs, or missing features in it. Just implement and fix them and then post your patches to upsteam! ;) This is the way I do. :) Happy coding! :D On 10/10/2012 03:45 PM, karan garg wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been an open-source enthusiast since 2010 and using Linux as my > operating system for last 2 years. However, now I want to take an active > part in open-source development and contribute to the society under an > expert guidance. I am an RHCE and have a basic understanding of a fair > few things like database, c, c++, ruby, shell scripting, etc. I would > really consider it an honor if you would guide me. > > -- > Regards :) > Karan >