Hello

[John Ralls]

> On May 9, 2024, at 06:36, russ.gorby at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Hello gnucash developers, I thought I’d introduce myself. 
> I’m Russ Gorby and have been a SW developer for many years.
> Recent project work included C++17, Cmake (Windows native compiler+Linux GCC), Gtest, PyTest, Jenkins Ci/CD.
> I have developed code in all the areas and we used Git/Github source control extensively.
> 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.

Russ,

Welcome to GnuCash. 

The Wiki is a good place to start, particularly https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development and https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development. For a broad-brush look at where we want to go see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Roadmap. To get a development environment on MS Windows see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_on_Windows. 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.

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 https://bugzilla.readthedocs.io/en/5.0/) hosted at https://bugs.gnucash.org/. 

You may want to join our IRC channel, see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/IRC, where interactions can be more immediate.

Regards,
John Ralls

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