Introduction [Introduction]

[Marek Counts <ma...@outlook.com>]

Hello, 

My name is
Marek and I'm a masters student in computer science with dual concentrations in
Program Security and database technology. I know C/C++,C# , java, python and VB
to the extent I have written programs with each. 

I would like to
help with the development of this project. I am currently reading through a lot
of the starters guide documents as well as some of the other information that I
can get my hands on. Anyhow, I'm here and ready to help however I can, this
will be my first large project I have ever helped with so I apologize if I
stumble around for a few weeks.

I have
downloaded some of the code and will be looking though that the rest of this
week most likely trying to at least make heads or tails of it. Anyhow, anything
simple that any of you need help on just shoot me a message and I would love to
help you out with it!

I have a few
operating systems I can test on.

windows 7, Windows
8, Gentoo, and backtrack

 

Marek

 		 	   		  

Re: Introduction [Introduction]

[Jürgen Schmidt <jo...@gmail.com>]

On 1/30/13 8:55 AM, Marek Counts wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> My name is
> Marek and I'm a masters student in computer science with dual concentrations in
> Program Security and database technology. I know C/C++,C# , java, python and VB
> to the extent I have written programs with each. 
> 
> I would like to
> help with the development of this project. I am currently reading through a lot
> of the starters guide documents as well as some of the other information that I
> can get my hands on. Anyhow, I'm here and ready to help however I can, this
> will be my first large project I have ever helped with so I apologize if I
> stumble around for a few weeks.
> 
> I have
> downloaded some of the code and will be looking though that the rest of this
> week most likely trying to at least make heads or tails of it. Anyhow, anything
> simple that any of you need help on just shoot me a message and I would love to
> help you out with it!
> 
> I have a few
> operating systems I can test on.
> 
> windows 7, Windows
> 8, Gentoo, and backtrack
> 

Hi Marek,

first of all welcome at OpenOffice and your interest to help us to
improve the product.

I think a good way to get started is to prepare your own build env, you
can find a building guide under
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO

Once you have prepared your build env you can try to debug certain code
areas and can try to analyze some issues. The best way it to get simply
started and learn by doing. Once you have picked up an issue you can
come back and ask where to get started and we can give you more detailed
tips. The code base is huge and focusing on one specific area is
probably a good idea.

The best debugging tool is of course the Microsoft debugger and I would
recommend to start debugging under windows. But it really depends on
your own preferences and gdb works as well.

Again welcome at Apache OpenOffice and please feel free to ask question.

Juergen