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Re: Pointers to start contributing

 

Hello Guys,

Thanks for the overwhelming response. I will start working on starter bugs.

I'm planning to look into "Clean up sorting functions for mixed text and
numbers" bug. It looks like a good place to start.

Cheers!
Best Regards,
Pradeepa Senanayake.


On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 6:10 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 6/28/2019 2:23 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> > On 2019-06-28 13:25, Gabriel Staples, ElectricRCAircraftGuy.com wrote:
> >> Agreed! I was literally about to suggest the same thing. Add to this
> >> page: http://kicad-pcb.org/contribute/developers/
> >>
> >> That type of info (from Seth just now) would best be served I think
> >> though on a KiCad wiki, where any developer or contributor with edit
> >> access can just jump in and click an edit button and type that up or
> >> make edits or improvements as they see fit. Would it be possible for
> >> KiCad to get a wiki?
> >
> >
> > Hi Gabriel/Ben-
> >
> > I'm happy that the summary is useful.  I'll talk with others about if
> > and where we might include a summary section or divide up the
> > contributing site to make it more manageable.
>
> I don't see any issues with adding your summary to the contributing page
> on the KiCad website.  I would think a link to Jon's KiCon presentation
> would also be useful.
>
> >
> > On the wiki idea, we have pull requests for the kicad-website[1].
> > Personally, I find this setup preferable as it keeps our toolbase (git +
> > markdown) consistent and the content moderated.  Please give
> > contributing a shot over there first.  Github will even give you an
> > inline markdown editor, so you don't need to learn git, just fork and go.
> >
> > Best-
> > Seth
> >
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/kicad/kicad-website/pulls
> >
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