| whiskeydog | Hello! Wanted to say a quick hi before I lurked for a while; huge fan of ubuntu budgie, been motivated to possibly eventually try and contribute in my out-of-work time. Figured it would be best to watch discourse in here for a while before trying to dive in, but I've never contributed to anything linux-distro related before, so if anyone here feels like offering a small amount of guidance on where to | 15:32 |
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| whiskeydog | even start with such a task, that'd be fantastic. Regardless, keep up the good work, I'm gonna settle in to lurk now. :) | 15:32 |
| fossfreedom | whiskeydog, hi and welcome | 15:44 |
| fossfreedom | most discussion actually occurs here https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org | 15:45 |
| fossfreedom | in terms of contributing - anything and everything is welcome ... just depends really what interests you | 15:46 |
| whiskeydog | i'm a software engineer, have been for a while. would love to contribute, i figure starting with simple bugfixes or small features. i was already digging through discourse, so i'll continue to to do so. | 15:47 |
| fossfreedom | great - any specific languages - or languages that you would like to get more experience with? | 15:48 |
| whiskeydog | honestly i want the experience of contributing to a large scale OSS project the most | 15:49 |
| whiskeydog | i figure i'm going to have to dig into valla to contribute meaningfully, which is fine. languages are languages. | 15:49 |
| fossfreedom | ah - that means looking through upstream https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop ... lots of issues ... various tags for "first time" etc for things to get started with | 15:50 |
| fossfreedom | alternatively, the UB team is currently very interested in helping out with this project https://github.com/spheras/desktopfolder - its a key part of 19.04 and beyond | 15:51 |
| whiskeydog | fantastic! same deal, start looking for beginner issues and just toss in a pull request? | 15:52 |
| fossfreedom | sure | 15:53 |
| whiskeydog | i do appreciate your help, even though i've been at this a very long time the thought of diving into anything distro-related has been daunting to me | 15:53 |
| whiskeydog | i've liked UB enough that i think my motivation to contribute and help keep it alive has outweighed my anxiety in this case | 15:54 |
| fossfreedom | happy to help - I'm more around on our discourse site - so if you can't find me here ... throw something there and I'll get back to you. | 15:54 |
| whiskeydog | thank you very much | 15:54 |
| whiskeydog | greatly appreciated | 15:54 |
| fossfreedom | yw | 15:54 |
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