On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Sergio Fedi <sergio.fedi@gmail.com> wrote:

As a fairly experienced Smalltalk programmer but a very new user of Pharo,

Where do you guys suggest me to start contributing?

To be more specific, there are parts of the system I don't know, and practices and conventions of Pharo that I don't grasp yet, so it seems that work that can be done without relying on that knowledge would be more suitable for me.

I'm open to a pair programming session via Skype/Teamviewer or other medium.

For example, I was contemplating on defining the About text for the Versionner in light of the recent discussions.

That sounds like a nice addition (though actually I don't know the convention off hand).

Also, more hands are always needed for reviewing "resolved" issues to avoid them languishing.�� Often issues might only get one reviewer when ideally there would be two reviewers.

This has a few advantages for you.

* There is a lot of old code in Pharo with varying conventions.�� The best place to learn Pharo's conventions is "new" code.

* It mitigates the "parts of the system I don't know" issue - since code changes are location specific.

* You learn about system parts is a goal directed fashion (which works best for me rather than just browsing)

cheers -ben