help in making a developer

Ajay_Chahar · n00b Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 13

Hello Gentoo lovers out there,
I am Ajay Chahar , a 16 yr old linux enthusiast from India. I have been working with linux for the last 2 yrs and have gained quite fair knowledge. Now after trying around 23 different distros I have finally settled on Gentoo and have fallen in love with it. The power it gives me is awesome. Now what i request is that you developers out there train me so that i can give something back to Gentoo significantly , basically back to linux. Please this is an earnest request. Hoping for a fair amount of positive replies. Please this is no joke I really want to get trained from developers like you people. First hel can be of helping me to get me to install Gentoo on my notebook Acer TravlMate 4152NLCi I think the hardware may be compatible as it came preloaded with Linpus linux.I have managed to get Gentoo working on my PC.

I want to be the gratest developer with your help.

Cheers,
Ajay

darker · Apprentice Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 221

Instead of asking others to train you, why don't you train yourself. I suggest reading through these forums, the Gentoo Wiki, and the Gentoo documentation. If you have a problem, try to find out the solution yourself, and only as a last resort ask others to help. You will learn the most about Gentoo and Linux if you try to figure things out yourself.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Also, go through bugs.gentoo.org and look for stuff you are interested in helping with.
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slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

Mathiasdm · n00b Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 24

-File bugs
-Answer questions
-Learn how to program

That's all one can do, I guess ;-)

AllenJB · Veteran Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 1285

Hang out on IRC helping people too - you can learn a lot. Particularly for development related stuff you can hang out in #gentoo-dev (but not speak there), #gentoo-dev-help (some useful stufff in the topic), #gentoo-bugs (read random bugs!) and also the herd specific channels like #gentoo-portage - and of course for general assisting people there's #gentoo. If you speak languages other than english, check the channel list for a channel for your language - and maybe if there isn't one, start one!

Oh yeah, and read random ebuilds =)

Allen

Arniepoo · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:42 pm Post subject:

If you want to kickstart your development try the following:

Select a simple app/tool that interests you
Get hold of a source tarball for said app/tool and extract it into a development folder
Configure/build the app/tool
Once you have it running have a look at the source code and make some changes to it

As long as you pick a benign app (e.g. one that isn't going to damage your system) you shouldn't run into too many problems.

As previously mentioned, if you select an app that has known bugs in bugzilla, you can then have a go at fixing some bugs. You'll win friends and be hailed as a hero :lol:

Arnie