Time Nick Message 03:17 welcomebot Welcome shpurk1! The channel is pretty quiet right now, so I thought I'd say hello, and ping some people (like shauna, paulproteus, and marktraceur) that you're here. If no one responds for a while, try emailing us at hello@openhatch.org or just try coming back later. FYI, you're now on my list of known nicknames, so I won't bother you again. 04:22 welcomebot Welcome wjwelchusa! The channel is pretty quiet right now, so I thought I'd say hello, and ping some people (like shauna, paulproteus, and marktraceur) that you're here. If no one responds for a while, try emailing us at hello@openhatch.org or just try coming back later. FYI, you're now on my list of known nicknames, so I won't bother you again. 08:40 welcomebot Welcome mhoye! The channel is pretty quiet right now, so I thought I'd say hello, and ping some people (like shauna, paulproteus, and marktraceur) that you're here. If no one responds for a while, try emailing us at hello@openhatch.org or just try coming back later. FYI, you're now on my list of known nicknames, so I won't bother you again. 14:23 welcomebot Welcome moijes12! The channel is pretty quiet right now, so I thought I'd say hello, and ping some people (like shauna, paulproteus, and marktraceur) that you're here. If no one responds for a while, try emailing us at hello@openhatch.org or just try coming back later. FYI, you're now on my list of known nicknames, so I won't bother you again. 14:23 moijes12 welcomebot: hi 14:23 moijes12 hi everyone 14:23 fhacdroid moijes12, hi 14:24 fhacdroid moijes12, wassup? 14:32 pdurbin moijes12: hi 14:32 moijes12 fhacdroid: Hi. 14:33 moijes12 pdurbin: hi. 14:35 moijes12 pdurbin: Whats new ? 14:36 fhacdroid i want to write a compiler of my own , how should I proceed? 14:36 fhacdroid pdurbin, ? 14:37 moijes12 fhacdroid: Are you doing it as part of a classroom project ? 14:37 fhacdroid nope 14:37 fhacdroid moijes12, i just want to do it for fun 14:38 fhacdroid we are learning lex and yacc though 14:40 moijes12 fhacdroid: I'm not sure. Sorry :( 14:45 fhacdroid any idea? 14:51 pdurbin fhacdroid: what are you going to compile? C? your own language? 15:07 fhacdroid pdurbin, i want to write my language too 15:07 fhacdroid but for now a simple compiler to learn 16:54 moijes12 paulproteus: hi 17:26 S3tanta Hello 17:27 welcomebot Welcome S3tanta! 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FYI, you're now on my list of known nicknames, so I won't bother you again. 17:37 beluga_ S3tanta: hey 17:39 S3tanta Do you think you could tell me if it's a good idea to try and start contributing to open source projects if I'm at a fairly basic level of programming (can work with linked lists & binary trees, etc but almost no real projects yet) 17:39 beluga_ somewhat openhatchy (Lydia has worked with OH before): http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2015/08/03/evolving-kde-recommendations/ 17:39 beluga_ S3tanta: you might get into the quality assurance team of some project 17:40 beluga_ that way you will work near to the code, but don't have to dive in immediately :) 17:40 S3tanta I'd like that, however there are so many projects it's hard to know which to apply for and how 17:40 S3tanta Pitivi looks interesting however, I may try to get into that 17:40 beluga_ you will get an overview of the state of the project, where does legacy code live, where is modern stuff etc. 17:40 beluga_ and you get to know the people 17:41 pdurbin often you don't have to apply. you offer to help 17:41 S3tanta thanks 17:41 beluga_ yeah, with QA you can waltz right in and start testing stuff and replying to bug reports 17:42 beluga_ people will be like "yeah, yeah welcome" and don't think twice about asking who you are :) 17:42 S3tanta that's cool, I'll try that 17:43 beluga_ with Pitivi you would get the big Gnome community to back everything you do 17:46 pdurbin around 24 minutes in these guys argue that a good way to get into open source is to document methods: http://bikeshed.fm/24 17:49 S3tanta Do they usually have a doccumentation guide or do I just explain how the functions work and try to do it tidily? 17:50 pdurbin it depends, probably 17:51 beluga_ S3tanta: with big projects there is usually a documentation team and they can help you get started 17:52 beluga_ S3tanta: http://wiki.pitivi.org/wiki/Bug_reporting <- that looks like a good window to bug testing 17:55 willingc pdurbin: howdy. I've just come out of my multi-week IRC exile ;) 17:55 S3tanta Thanks, I'll try and see if I can find a bug I can work on 17:55 pdurbin willingc: welcome back. I've been enjoying the engineer retweets. 17:56 willingc pdurbin: They are wonderful :) 17:56 beluga_ S3tanta: yeah, I guess they appreciate, if you try to confirm some of the unconfirmed ones: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&product=pitivi 17:57 S3tanta ok, that sounds doable, thanks beluga_ 17:57 beluga_ then just make it a habit to hang around on their IRC channel and make friends :) 18:43 beluga_ Nightrose: hi! I just recommended your newest blog post here an hour ago :) 18:43 Nightrose beluga_: :D thanks! 18:44 beluga_ Nightrose: I've been going full-on with recruitment bizniz in the context of LibreOffice QA 18:45 Nightrose how's it going? 18:46 beluga_ over the past couple of months I've contacted over 70 bug reporters via email and posted topics to a couple of forums (Sourceforge, reddit, LibreOffice unofficial forums) .. people do get back to me and even start working :) 18:47 beluga_ we might add some automatic mechanism that displays a message in the Bugzilla footer inviting the user to join the QA team after they have filed their first bug 18:47 Nightrose sweet 18:47 beluga_ an option to that is sending an email.. more invasive, yes.. but not necessarily that bad 18:47 Nightrose *nod* 18:48 beluga_ I always promise to mentor 18:48 beluga_ I'm eager to see what happens, if we grow the team to really unprecedented proportions :) 18:50 beluga_ I hope we could some day cooperate with the QA teams of other projects 18:50 beluga_ have some kind of "Global QA day" 18:51 beluga_ it's such a sweet spot to get new contributors.. very easy to jump in and then explore other teams, dev, design or whatever 18:55 beluga_ Nightrose: here is a link to a thread where I explain in my own words how we do (manual) work in QA: https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/helpwanted/testers/thread/dae9bfa9/ 18:55 Nightrose thanks! 18:56 beluga_ some short notes about recruiting I have collected in my wiki user page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Beluga I haven't created a wiki page yet as I need more experience and data 18:59 beluga_ we even have our own whiteboard code for bugs that need KDE :) https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?f9=OP&list_id=551488&product=LibreOffice&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&status_whiteboard=needsKDE&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr 19:02 Nightrose :D 19:03 beluga_ I am proud to say I have confirmed several of those ;) 20:06 pdurbin fhacdroid: for creating languages and compilers I recommend talking to prologic in #sourcefu