Hey Joris,
I started developing wine in exactly the same way you are starting: working on the janitorial projects. My current project is converting the crypt cross calls, and it is almost finished, but im waiting for my CryptSetProviderExA patch to be committed before I send the rest of my cross call cleanup patches.
If you would like I can write a little howto concerning W->A cross call cleanup and the like (unit tests). There are a bunch of little nitpicky things you just have to know before you can really start cracking in on it...a while back i tried to submit a cleanup patch like 6 times and it was reject everytime because I didnt know the details yet. So if you would like this information, let me know. We're glad you're here to help with wine.
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:01:09 +0100, Mike Hearn m.hearn@signal.qinetiq.com wrote:
Joris Huizer wrote:
Hello,
I'm thinking of trying to do some helpfull work on wine;
Cool!
I have the following problem,
- I don't know where to start (I have never done stuff in wine or
another open source project) ; but I hope you have patience to guide me into that (but I'm a informatica student, I like learning stuff like htis ;) )
Well, you can do lots of things. You could sit down and try and make apps work, which is fun and rewarding but has a STEEP learning curve, or you can tackle the janitorial tasks (like you said), or you can hack on the tools we use like the debugger/test suite, or you can work on ease of use issues and desktop integration. There's a ton of things, really.
Most people hack on making particular applications they like work.
- I don't know the details about Unicode functions;
I think the W->A thing of the janitorial might be a great way to start working in wine code; as it doesn't require too much overview about the way wine does its work I think.. (and I don't yet have much of that overview..)
I've started work about a week ago on a "Wine developer cheatsheet" that covers the basics like important debugging channels, how to use the debugger, some basic Win32 API guidance and so on. I'll publish it here in a week or two.
thanks -mike