Re: Hi there

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Nils Luxton <nils.luxton@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 September 2011 04:22, Stewart Lord <stewey@ambitious.ca> wrote: > >> On 2011-09-02, at 2:42 PM, Nils Luxton wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > Not sure about all this mailing-list stuff, so I don't know if I need to >> > send a subscribe message first or what, but here's a quick "hi" message >> > anyway. >> > >> > After reading @Tyr43l's comment on Court Ewing's recent blog post, I was >> > surprised to read that there is a lack of volunteers for the various PHP >> > sites. >> > >> > I contacted @Tyr43l on Twitter and he suggested that I introduce myself >> > here, so without further ado: >> > >> > I'm Nils Luxton, a developer from Oxfordshire, England, father of one >> > daughter and many tools; ready and willing to volunteer my time (what >> there >> > is of it, at least). >> > >> > So I guess my first question is where can I find out the "what's what" >> > of >> > the various sites? @Tyr43l mentioned that there was some buzz around the >> > prototype.php.net site - are there bug/feature lists I can take a look >> at to >> > get my feet wet? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > - Nils >> >> >> Hi Nils, >> >> Thanks for the offer to help out! Are you handy with graphic design, or >> would you feel more comfortable just working on the code? >> >> Cheers, >> Stew > > > > Hi Stew, > > I'm primarily a developer, but I do plenty of UI work in my day job; I would > say that I'm not brilliant at designing sites from scratch, but am pretty > good at tweaking existing designs and designing new bits that fit in with > existing designs - if that makes sense! > > I've been reading the mailing list archives and hacking around in the code > for prototype.php.net and am looking forward to getting stuck in. I've got a > few questions I'd like to ask before I start doing any of the available > tasks, but I'll start a new thread for that (probably tomorrow). > > Thanks, > - N Hi Nils, I don't have all the links to hand right now, i'm on 5% battery on my mac. Here is some information for you to get you started and hopefully someone can fill in the links for me. You need to check the wiki page [1] on setting up a mirror on your local environment at http://xx.php.net (for example) Then check the howtohelp [2] page and pick a task Upon completing the task run the "svn diff" command and create a patch file. You then email that patch file to this mailing list and the other devs will merge with their working copy and give feedback and when its ready then someone with commit access will commit it and give you attribution on the commit message. Hope that helps explain our processes. Happy Coding. Regards, Paul Dragoonis. >