Re: Interested in contributing to Bash

2017-05-23 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/23/17 2:55 PM, John McKown wrote: > > > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Chet Ramey > wrote: > > > 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 >

Re: Interested in contributing to Bash

2017-05-23 Thread John McKown
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 1:55 PM, John McKown wrote: > > > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > >> >> 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

Re: Interested in contributing to Bash

2017-05-23 Thread John McKown
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > > 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 > distributio

Re: Interested in contributing to Bash

2017-05-23 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/23/17 2:49 PM, Pranav Deshpande wrote: > Thank you! > I will be reading it now. What do you think of the 'bugs' Eduardo mentioned? I'll weigh in later. I'm still catching up from traveling. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita bre

Re: Interested in contributing to Bash

2017-05-23 Thread Pranav Deshpande
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 wrote: > On 5/21/17 11:53 AM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote: > > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:44 AM, Pranav Deshpande > > wrote: > > [...] > >> Any guid

Re: Interested in contributing to Bash

2017-05-23 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/21/17 11:53 AM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:44 AM, Pranav Deshpande > 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 g

Re: Interested in contributing to Bash

2017-05-21 Thread Eduardo Bustamante
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:44 AM, Pranav Deshpande 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) - Subs

Interested in contributing to Bash

2017-05-21 Thread Pranav Deshpande
Hello everyone, I am a beginner when it comes to open source and am interested in contributing to GNU Bash. 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. Regards, Pranav.