State of the GnuCash project: A call for help

[Derek Atkins]

Tony Bloomfield <tonyb.lx at btinternet.com> writes:

> On Monday 11 August 2003 10:01, gnucash-user-request at lists.gnucash.org wrote:
> 
> > Very soon, I will write a second article to list specific projects where
> > you can contribute.  Regardless of your skill set, there will be one for
> > you...
> 
> As an interim suggestion, rather than list specific projects, how about a 
> short list of the basic skills and knowledge required/optional for the 
> various classes of contributor (developer, documenter, tester,  database 
> specialist, etc)?
> 
> I'm probably not explaining this too well since it's too damn hot here today, 
> and my brain's melting. But the sort of thing is your mention of doxygen. I 
> don't know what that is, but I would guess some sort of source code 
> self-documenter. If I were to offer help in development, it would seem to me 
> necessary to know this package. So while waiting for your next report, I 
> might usefully spend some time learning a little about it, and other basic 
> requirements.

Well, not really...  As you guess (correctly) doxygen is a code
self-documentation system, but all you really need to know to use it
is how to "properly format the comments" in header files.  I know nothing
about doxygen, but it's not that hard to document functions using it.

> As I say, just a suggestion,
> 
> Cheers,
> TonyB

-derek

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