[Sugar-devel] prerequisite skills for contributing code (was Re: [Dextrose] [PATCH v4 sugar] Pulsing icon delayed by 5 seconds or so SL#2080)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 00:07, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 18:23 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>> In my experience, it's easier start resolving tickets in activities
>> than in the plataform.
>> That worked for me:
>> * start writing a new activity: you can do stupid things, while learn
>> python and the interaction with the platform.
>> * try t resolve easy tickets in activities: there are many in
>> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ and http://dev.laptop.org/
>> * next try to solve problems in Sugar.
>
> I completely agree with you.

This has been said several times to Seeta developers (and is valid for
everybody).

Manu, could you please explain what learning are doing Seeta
developers before they try to submit a contribution?

I'm under the strong impression that people are trying to play
football before learning to walk and this isn't helping nobody.

Thanks,

Tomeu

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