Re: bug-gnuzilla Digest, Vol 3, Issue 6

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

arnuld <address@hidden> writes:

> Haa....Haaa....i was waiting for such an opprtunity. hey dude,
> aaahhh...sorry...Giuseppe how about me? i have some time. may i call
> you Giu from now on?
Call me Giu if you like :)

> actually, i also posted my "intentions" some days ago when you were
> away for 1 week. it seems like you did not read that email. anyway,
> here is my ugly-looking profile ;-)
>
> 1.) i know some Common Lisp from http://gigamonkeys.com/book. did 1st
> 22 chapters only. i never did any real-life coding :-(
Great language but it is not used in IceWeasel, maybe we can consider to
implement and use it :)

> 2.) i know some C++ from Stroustrup, right now on chapter 6. i know
> only half of procedural programming in C++. i dont even know what are
> classes, temmplates, STL etc etc fancy stuff. i havn't touched
> Stroustrup from last 6 days as i was experimenting with different OSs
> (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Arch Linux, to mention some). but if you say "YES"
> i will pick Stroustrup up immediately.
Mozilla Firefox is written in C++ so it will be useful to know it, anyway
our work is based more on checking files and basic scripting, I remember I 
worked on php and javascript files too without consider makefiles.  If you
can help on C++ it would be good but at the moment there is not much to do.

> 3.) Heck...i dont even know C
Chapters 4 and 5 of Stroustrup are almost C.  Learn some standard library
functions and how write dirty code and you will be a good C developer :)

> 4.) and i want to contribute *only* by doing coding. i want to become
> "BUG-fixer Lord" :-)
I doubt we will have many bugs considering our small modifications to the
original Mozilla source code, in case we find a bug in the original source
code it is better to send the patch directly to them.  If you want to discover
bugs I suggest you to start to use IceWeasel and see if something goes wrong.
What GNU/Linux distribution do you use?

> 5.) check my old post here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2006-10/msg00091.html
Read :)

> reply me if i am of any use (also reply, if i am not of any use.  in
> this case please, please provide some explanation, if you have some
> time :0)
As you see I had time to reply and say you are useful :)

Regards,
Giuseppe