Interested contributing to mercurial!

[Greg Ward]

On 26 March 2012, Albert Cervin said:
> My name is Albert Cervin and I am a last year Master of Science student. In
> all my spare time projects I use Mercurial for version handling and now I
> want to give something back.

Welcome! The usual way to do this is to just start sending patches.
Start small. Bug fixes are generally more appreciated than new
features, and are a great way to get started and learn the ropes.

Read this:

  http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ContributingChanges

and then read it again.

> I use Windows most of the time but I am also a long time Linux user.

Oh good! We definitely need Windows developers. You probably want
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HackableMercurial.

Poke around the bug tracker (http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/) and
see if you can find something interesting. One idea: get more of the
tests to run on Windows. That would be a huge win.

        Greg
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Greg Ward                                http://www.gerg.ca/
I wonder if I ought to tell them about my PREVIOUS LIFE as a COMPLETE
STRANGER?