I would like to contribute to XFCE

[Ondřej Kulatý]

Hello,
I am currently studying at university and this semester we have
subject called "Open source programming". One of the assignments in
this subject it to get in touch with open source community and try to
contribute some open source project. I have choosen XFCE since it's my
favorite DE and I am currently using it on my Linux box. This will be
my first contribution to open source software. I have some experience
with C language, but no experience with other libraries used in XFCE,
like GTK etc.

Subject of participation
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Fixing some small bug(s) from bugzilla would be good start for me,
what do you think? I don't want to do nothing big, since I am not yet
familiar with XFCE code, used libraries etc.

Workflow
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I have already explored some bugs in bugzilla in order to understand
how this works. Correct me if I am wrong.
I will first choose a bug I want to fix (Do I need to ask somebody? Or
is it enough to write comment on bug page? Do I need to be assigned to
this bug?). Then I will download latest version of source code from
GIT and try to find and fix that bug. After that I will create patch
and submit it as comment on page of the bug. Will anybody test my fix
and will I receive any feedback from developers regarding my patch (if
it's OK, if I am doing something wrong etc...) ? If the fix will be
OK, will it ever be merged in some release?

Thanks.
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Ondřej Kulatý