Leonard,
I know that what works for one person doesn't always work for another, but
I will tell you how I started out in open-source development just in case
it helps.
The first open-source project I did development on was TinyCOBOL. I knew
C pretty well but knew squat about COBOL, so I set out to learn it. I got
a couple of books on discount and started trying things out. Whenever I
would run into something that did not work, I would dig into the code. If
it was something simple, I would write up a patch and send it to the list.
When I started looking at mdbtools, I only knew a little SQL and absolutely
no ODBC. If you do not know either SQL or ODBC, I would say find some good
references online or in print. Then start trying out the examples using
mdbtools (for SQL testing) and unixODBC (for SQL and ODBC testing). If you
run into something you don't understand, I am sure someone will be able to
help you out.
-- Jeff Smith
> --- Leonard Leblanc <lleblanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Jeff,
> >
> > It would be nice if I could start with a bug fix to get acquainted with
> > the project.
> >
> > I should also say that this is the first time that I have decided to
> > help with an open-source project so I am new to how open-source
> > development works. Also, I am fairly new to development in C, however I
> > am not new to programming in general (10+ years experience).
> >
> > I look forward to contributing and thank everyone for their patience
> > while I learn the ins and outs of working on an open source project.
> >
> > Lenny
> >
> > On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 10:13, Jeff Smith wrote:
> > > Welcome, there is *plenty* of work left to go around. :-)
> > >
> > > I have only been here a little while, but from what I have seen, Brian
> > > does the bulk of real development. I have submitted several small bug
> > > and warnings fixes and have an almost-working implementation of
> > > SQLTables for the ODBC driver ready (there is a bug in deleting
> > > temporary tables that I have not yet tracked down that is causing
> > > problems in testing it). After that on my TODO list is SQLColumns.
> > > Implementing SQLTables and SQLColumns should help some of the unixODBC
> > > tools work with mdbtools better.
> > >
> > > -- Jeff Smith
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