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On 10 Oct 2013, at 13:21, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:

> One nice way to get in the mood of doing (and at the same time testing the system) is to start
> with trivial improvements.
>
> This is especially nice as a "starter" when you never contributed any change to Pharo.
>
> And by trivial I mean *really* mean trivial:
> � � � -> a typo in a comment
> � � � -> remove a temp not accessed
> � � � -> clean out some trivial dead code
> � � � -> do a simplistic refactoring of a bad smell, even inside a single method
> � � � -> document something
> � � � -> structure bad stuff better so it is easier to replace later
>
> Taken in itself, single changes like these have no influence, but:
>
> � � � -> they get you in a mood of doing.
> � � � -> they make you feel that Pharo is "owned" by you.
> � � � -> take 1000 of those trivialities and they *do* make a difference.
> � � � -> next time something bothers you, you will have the context of "I can just fix it".
>
> The critic tools is one way of finding these places, another is to just note down every time
> you see a triviality and later go through that list. The bug tracker can be source, too.
>
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> � � � Marcus