<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 9, 2024, at 06:36, russ.gorby@gmail.com wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in;">Hello gnucash developers, I thought I’d introduce myself.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;">I’m Russ Gorby and have been a SW developer for many years.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Recent project work included<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>C++17</b>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Cmake</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Windows native compiler+Linux GCC),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Gtest</b>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>PyTest</b>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Jenkins Ci/CD</b>.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;">I have developed code in all the areas and we used<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Git/Github</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>source control extensively.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;">I haven't worked for a year now and was looking for a project I could contribute to and get back into the swing of things. I think I can contribute positively to the gnucash project, and was thinking the Windows side might be a place I could contribute but I have no clue what the project priorities are. I need to start slow and was hoping for direction on where I might start that won't get in peoples way where I can contribute something small while I learn the code base and build environment.<o:p></o:p></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Russ,</div><div><br></div><div>Welcome to GnuCash. </div><div><br></div><div>The Wiki is a good place to start, particularly <a href="https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development">https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development</a> and <a href="https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development">https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development</a>. For a broad-brush look at where we want to go see <a href="https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Roadmap">https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Roadmap</a>. To get a development environment on MS Windows see <a href="https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_on_Windows">https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_on_Windows</a>. There’s very little Windows-specitic code in GnuCash. We use MSYS and Mingw-w64 to make a mostly POSIX-compliant coding environment on Windows.</div><div><br></div><div>Fixing bugs is one way to get familiar with the code base in digestible chunks and there is no shortage of bugs to work on. We use Bugzilla 5 (docs at <a href="https://bugzilla.readthedocs.io/en/5.0/">https://bugzilla.readthedocs.io/en/5.0/</a>) hosted at <a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/">https://bugs.gnucash.org/</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>You may want to join our IRC channel, see <a href="https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/IRC">https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/IRC</a>, where interactions can be more immediate.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>John Ralls</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>