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Mini-guide for Elementary OS development, inspired by https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Getting_started
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Getting started with elementary dev.md

Initial setup

Picking a bug to fix

  1. Bugs that you have experienced yourself (i.e. "scratch your own itch")
  2. Bugs that are targeted to the next milestone (any way to make this link future-proof? https://launchpad.net/elementary/+milestones provides no sorting methods...)
  3. Bugs that have bounties attached bounties
  4. If you're getting started, pick from the bugs marked as "bitesize"

Actually doing the fix

  • Many projects have README and HACKING files in their root directory. And "grep -rl" is a powerful ally.
  • You could also try asking in a comment on the bug report itself.
  • If the bug is reported against the right page, you can just click the link that says "code" up top there and the very first branch is "trunk" (what you'd call "master" if you're familiar with git).

Getting help

Sources / links:

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