Thank you all, EasyHacks sounds like a good starting point
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 3:32 PM Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 20:25, Ed wrote: > > > > > > On Monday, January 29, 2024 at 03:13:07 PM EST, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc < > gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 19:15, Claudio Bantaloukas via Gcc > > <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > > > > > On 26/01/2024 17:51, Florin Mateoc via Gcc wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I am an experienced software developer, with an interest in > compilers, and > > > > an admirer of gcc. > > > > I would like to contribute, hopefully reusing some of my existing > skills, > > > > experience and interests, but unfortunately the (current) overlap is > not > > > > great, so I am asking for some guidance/reality check. > > > > > > Hi Florin, > > > I'm also just starting to contribute and it's a bit daunting, you're > not > > > the only one! :). > > > > > > Why not start with an existing bug report? https://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/ > has > > > a link to bugzilla, which is full of opportunities! > > > > Specifically, have a look at https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/EasyHacks > > > > Which is one of the links from the > https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GettingStarted page. > > > > I seems like the recent additions to the C++ standard library have a lot > of things that look like a good first project. > > Like the flat containers (flat_map and flat_set) for example or > > Interfacing std::bitset with std::string_view https://wg21.link/P2697R1. > > Or > > Interfacing string streams with std::string_view > https://wg21.link/P2495R3. > > Assuming these aren't being worked on by someone else already. > > There are bugs for some of them, which should be status=ASSIGNED if > somebody's working on them: > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=c%2B%2B23-lib > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=c%2B%2B26-lib >
