Hi,
As I have said previously, I am a 3rd year university student. I have more than
2 years experience with Java, C and Python and brief experience with C++
(although I believe I can pick up fairly easily). I also have very good
knowledge of git and agile methodology and have done an internship at PayPal as
a software engineer intern, where I used these technologies extensively. I
need to contribute to an open source project of my choice for the next semester
(ending in May 2016) and I would like to start now itself, to get familiar
quickly. I picked Open Office since it is something I use daily (almost) and
would like to contribute to. I am hoping to contribute to the Open Office
codebase itself with new features, bug fixes, refactoring etc. I can contribute
around 10-12 hours a week, and maybe more if there is a critical deadline to be
met.
I have successfully built OpenOffice on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) with the
following output at the end of the build process
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Successful packaging process!
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copying log file to
/Users/jatin1/repos/asf/openoffice/main/instsetoo_native/unxmaccx.pro/Apache_OpenOffice_SDK/dmg/install/log/log_AOO420_en-US.log
stopping log at Tue Oct 27 22:32:31 2015
Multiprocessing build is finished
Maximal number of processes run: 2
As for my development environment, I will be using CLion (by JetBrains) as my
IDE, which comes integrated with SVN support, so I don’t have to muck around on
the terminal.
The next step I would like to take is, as instructed previously, ask if anyone
has any open projects that they would not mind mentoring me on. There is ample
time for me (7-8 months), so time is not a critical issue.
By mentoring, I do not expect hand holding, but just very basic guidance, and I
can give my shot at it.
Thanks,
Jatin
