2011-11-07

Drizzle: Seeking tiny contributions, leading to big things

The Drizzle project regularly gets people asking what they can do to get involved in the project.

One very easy way to brush up on your C++ skills and dip your toe into our open development process is to fix minor warnings.

We are very proud that Drizzle builds with zero warnings for with "gcc -Wall -Wextra".

But we can be even better!  Our JenkinsCI system has a target that is even more picky, and also a target that runs cppcheck.

Go to one of those pages, pick a build log off the build history, find a warning that you think you can fix, and then ask us in the #drizzle channel on Freenode how to send your fix to us.

After you've done that a few times, you'll be ready to fix some low hanging fruit.

We've had people graduate from this process into becoming a Google Summer of Code student, and eventually having a full time paying job hacking on Drizzle and other open source software.

And it all starts with writing a simple warning fix.

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