Re: [Libreoffice] 14 files in libreoffice git source flagged as trojans

Hi Billy,

I'm a n00b and I faced the tall learning curve too.

I would say that things are easier than before to get started. The API
and Opengrok websites are really helping:
http://api.libreoffice.org/
http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/

Marc-André Laverdière
Software Security Scientist
Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad, India

On 09/30/2011 09:09 PM, Billy Charlton wrote:
> Ha, thanks for the warm welcome! What a difference :-)  
>
> So, my pet peeve issue is a Calc bug/feature request first filed in
> *2003* -- and is in the OOo bugzilla
> at https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=10864 .  I actually
> filed one of the 12 dupes around 2006. The comment thread is pretty
> depressing.  Apparently not low-hanging fruit or this would have been
> fixed ages ago right?  It's a  frustrating UI issue for users who are
> accustomed to Excel. 
>
> I always wondered if there was some dark reason this issue kept getting
> backburned when the project was still in OOo.
>
> Anyway, I've done plenty of C++ and UI development projects so I'm not
> afraid of tackling it, but the codebase is pretty impenetrable for
> someone just starting out on this project.  Pointers welcome! 
>
> ..Billy
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com
> <mailto:michael.meeks@novell.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 13:52 -0700, Billy Charlton wrote:
>     > I just did my first git clone of the core libreoffice codebase, hoping
>     > to poke around to see if I could start helping out with some
>     > bugfixing.
>
>            Cool ! :-) what bug are you most interested in ? and/or have you
>     grokked the easy hacks ? prolly the best way to get into the code is to
>     ask questions and meet with the hackers on #libreoffice-dev on
>     irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net> - if you're not familiar
>     with IRC, it is really worth
>     getting into it - for interactive discussion & mentoring.
>
>            There is a lot to do of course - one of the things that came up
>     recently was the idea of getting:
>
>            http://code.google.com/p/include-what-you-use/
>
>            going, but that's prolly going to be quite a bit more
>     difficult on
>     Windows than Linux (many things are sadly).
>
>            Anyhow - great to have you around & thanks for the report,
>     looks like
>     we'll get a nice fix to hide the (apparent) badness in those files -
>     which we use as regression tests.
>
>            All the best,
>
>                    Michael.
>
>     --
>     michael.meeks@suse.com <mailto:michael.meeks@suse.com>  <><, Pseudo
>     Engineer, itinerant idiot
>
>
>
>
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