Thank you! I will be reading it now. What do you think of the 'bugs' Eduardo mentioned?
Regards, Pranav. On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:09 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 5/21/17 11:53 AM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote: > > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:44 AM, Pranav Deshpande > > <deshpande.v.pra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [...] > >> Any guidance on so as how to get started? Are there any tasks that I can > >> take up so that I get introduced to the code base. > > > > My recommendations would be: > > > > - Clone the git repository (https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=bash) > > - Subscribe both bug-bash@gnu.org and help-b...@gnu.org. Try to > > reproduce bug reports and report back the results. > > - Read the mailing list archives > > (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/ and > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/), and take note of any > > reported bugs that are not answered or fixed yet in the latest `devel' > > branch of the git repository. > > - Some people place bug reports in the Savannah issue tracker > > (https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=bash). You might also want to > > check there and see if any of the issues reported there are still not > > fixed in the latest `devel' branch. > > The best thing to read to learn about how the shell is structured -- other > than the code itself -- is the unedited version of the chapter I wrote for > AOSA (The Architecture of Open Source Applications). It's in the bash-4.4 > distribution in doc/aosa-bash-full.pdf. > > Chet > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~ > chet/ >
