Re: [pygame] Starting the pygame 2 series

Hi e1000,

thanks for sharing your experiences and your help so far.

It's been good to see what you've been able to accomplish already.

Last month I started a couple of articles on C related stuff, that I hope you will enjoy.

One on 'post modern C tooling' for all the tools people are using post 2011 with C.

Also one on SDL2 fundamentals in C.

Hopefully soon we can get a new pygame release out,

and lots of people can also enjoy your efforts :)

cheers,

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:14 PM e1000 <e1000@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Thomas,

personal experience concerning contribution:
It will strongly depend on your background and desires.

I just started couple of month getting involved.

It turned out, "low hanging fruits" and "good first issue" did not fit
exactly to me. I'm beginner on C. So I started trying to reproduce the
bugs, put comments, added lengthy tickets to trigger problems and did a
lot of boring still necessary python-test-cleanup (which can still be
improved and a lot of tests still are missing...).
I also did the cleanup of removing lower Python & SDL versions. Here I
learned that SDL1.2 is very old (and the development is abandoned?), so
I guess the team would be happy to be able to switch to SDL2 and I
suggest to see it as a priority ;) but unfortunately, I can not
contribute to it...
Finally, with my mathematical background, I can enter the drawing issues
and did some C algorithm stuff, so I'm happy to learn C with nice help
from everybody :)

Documentation is also always improvable. And somebody suggested, we
should improve the examples...

Still so many things to do \o/

On 05/11/2018 11:33, René Dudfield wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I strongly feel that starting with tests is a good idea, and also for
> "good first issue" issues.
> Most projects mark issues which should be fairly easy to get started on.
> Definitely choose a project based on your interests, and one where
> people are willing to help out.
>
> Here's a "good first issue" for you if you want it:
> https://github.com/pygame/pygame/issues/565
> Just say on there something like "I'm working on this".
>
> Also see: https://www.pygame.org/wiki/Contribute
> Feel free to drop in the #contributing room where you can get help.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:08 AM Thomas Sanjurjo <sanjurjo7@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:sanjurjo7@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> If I'm getting my feet wet with programming seriously, where should
> I best focus my efforts? I can do documentation and explain what
> code does decently well, but I'd also like to actually conteibute
> some code to the project.
>
> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction .