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Getting started with the DW codebase.
Oct. 5th, 2010 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tyggerdev"Hudson: Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt?
Gorman: All we know is that there's still no contact with the colony, and that a xenomorph may be involved.
Frost: Excuse me sir, a-a what?
Gorman: A xenomorph.
Hicks: It's a bughunt. "
One of the eternal problems faced by large open source projects is keeping new developers. People show up with the best of intentions, but unless they have experience in the specific problem domain, language, and even the toolset of the project already, the barrier to entry just in finding the right file to edit can be overwhelming. Let alone suddenly having to learn ssh, cvs and the command line. I have written up my recent experiences with dw - I only got here last week, so I'm still very much at the "where do I even *find* that?" stage, but I have a little experience with this sort of thing, so hopefully this will be helpful.
http://tyggerdev.dreamwidth.org/470.html
Enjoy. And remember, the more feedback you add here or over there, the less work new developers have to do later :)
Gorman: All we know is that there's still no contact with the colony, and that a xenomorph may be involved.
Frost: Excuse me sir, a-a what?
Gorman: A xenomorph.
Hicks: It's a bughunt. "
One of the eternal problems faced by large open source projects is keeping new developers. People show up with the best of intentions, but unless they have experience in the specific problem domain, language, and even the toolset of the project already, the barrier to entry just in finding the right file to edit can be overwhelming. Let alone suddenly having to learn ssh, cvs and the command line. I have written up my recent experiences with dw - I only got here last week, so I'm still very much at the "where do I even *find* that?" stage, but I have a little experience with this sort of thing, so hopefully this will be helpful.
http://tyggerdev.dreamwidth.org/470.html
Enjoy. And remember, the more feedback you add here or over there, the less work new developers have to do later :)
