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Found a bug squasher!

Tuesday, 20 January 2009 02:52

Thanks to Humdinger's first comment on our bounty poll result, and the relative closeness in support for a wireless stack and alpha bugs bounty, I've found a developer to bring over to Haiku! Humdinger initially tried to see if any of the core developers would take on an alpha bug squashing bounty, but it didn't receive any replies. That led me on a search... I privately contacted two core Haiku developers, but they both don't have time. Then I registered a 'Haiku Alpha Bug Squashing' project at getafreelancer.com. I was quite surprised to see some replies, and found a developer located in the U.S who commented:

"I am interested in working on haiku os and contribute to it. Since its open source i don't want to charge for it. If interested do contact me."

Contact him I did! He's now listed as 'harsha' here on Haikuware. I told him we raised the bounty money and were comfortable with paying a $250 bounty he bidded for (leaves $500 for a wireless bounty), although the gesture to contribute for free was appreciated and shows his great intent and interest. He's been a proffesional developer for 4 years now and has been reading up on BeOS and Haiku, and even has a Linux development environment for Haiku setup.

So, now harsha would like to know how to get started. I'm going to leave comments here and invite everyone else to leave comments in case I miss something!

Comments  

 
0 # karl 2009-01-20 03:03
So the first thing I could recommend, is to register to Haiku's developer mailing list. If you have any questions, they'll sureley get answered here:

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If you want an interactive environment and need some immediate answers to questions, there's usually someone around on Haiku's IRC channel that can help. It's on Server: irc.freenode.org Channel: #haiku. You can also connect directly through our website here:

www.haikuware.com/chat

You can download Haiku for development in a virtual environment here (the larger 'pre-alpha images) These function in both Vmware and Virtual Box:

haiku-files.org/vm/

You can use the raw images to install to real hardware (if supported):

haiku-files.org/raw/

Basically, everything you need to know about developing under Haiku is listed here:

www.haiku-os.org/documents/dev/haiku_development_getting_started

Haiku uses Trac for bugs/issues:

dev.haiku-os.org/wiki

Finally, the most important part, the bugs that are blocking the alpha release are at the bottom of this article:

dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/R1/AlphaStatus
 
 
0 # thenerd 2009-01-20 04:45
Way to go Karl! Welcome to Haiku and Haikuware harsha!

That might be a good system to bring on board some other new peeps too ;-).
 
 
0 # Thanks! — harsha 2009-01-20 06:09
HI,
Thank you guys. I already have haiku running using vmware images. i registered on devel mailing list. I'll be looking at documentation and ping you guys by end of the today with some questions :-).

Thanks,
harsha
 
 
0 # umccullough 2009-01-20 12:25
If you get stuck, or want some quick help, don't hesitate to pop into #haiku on freenode and ask questions.

There are a few knowledgable people idling there that also live in the US, so you can probably even discuss things in the evenings while many of the devs live in Europe
 
 
0 # Humdinger 2009-01-21 03:49
Welcome harsha!
Good luck with those alpha-blocking bugs. And remember, there are still countless other buggers should those turn out to be just too damn elusive.
 
 
0 # Terrific news! — nutela 2009-01-26 00:19
Welcome! I hope you will be succesful in squasing those remaining bugs, contact me if you want testing to be done, my time is quite limited however :-/ antispam at wolke7 . net
 


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