Contributing to Chromium: An Illustrated Guide
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Re: Contributing to Chromium: An Illustrated Guide
#2Debugging with printfs, using grep... Good old-school stuff.
Re: Contributing to Chromium: An Illustrated Guide
#3This is a pretty good guide to getting started on contributing to Chromium.
I was an external contributor for Chromium for 2 years and it took me a while to figure out some of the procedures and best practices, like building the Release build instead of Debug or changing my GYP defines to using SHARED_LIBRARY -- those tweaks will literally save double digit minutes even on machines with very beefy CPUs.
The only other thing I can think of that I would add to this guide would be to search for "Hotlist:GoodFirstBug" in the issue tracker when trying to get started. Not every bug there is actually easy for a first-timer on the project to tackle, but you can normally find something to dive into and try to fix, even without much knowledge of the codebase.
I overall had a great experience with the project and it really helped me grow as a stronger developer early in my career.
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#4I dig this, it'd be cool to see a similar post for Firefox and other Browsers that are open source.
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#5I dig this, it'd be cool to see a similar post for Firefox and other Browsers that are open source.
You might enjoy http://codefirefox.com/.
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#6I dig this, it'd be cool to see a similar post for Firefox and other Browsers that are open source.
Mozilla has pretty good documentation for new contributors:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...
Code Firefox, a series of videos demonstrating how to download the code and build it (which, btw, takes less than ten minutes for a full clean build on my three-year-old MacBook Pro :)
Bugs Ahoy!, a Bugzilla search engine for "good first bugs" with a mentor's contact information, filtered by programming language or feature area matching your interests:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/BugsAhoy
There are also friendly Mozilla developers on the #introduction IRC channel on Mozilla's IRC server ready to answer new contributors' questions.
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#7first sentence:
"I gave a talk about how to get started contributing to Chromium, but ... my slides by themselves look like cold-medicine induced hallucinations (which, to be fair, they were)."
Is she serious? Hardcore. That stuff will "make pure LSD seem like Ginger Beer..."
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#8The links start getting on LSD when hovered upon. Found it funny :)
But a good start point. Thanks for sharing.
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#9Anyone know what she's using to build her presentations? I poked around but couldn't figure it out.
More here: https://speakerdeck.com/notwaldorf
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#10I cannot believe that no-one has registered https://canihaveapony.com/