<div>Ha, thanks for the warm welcome! What a difference :-) </div><div><br></div>So, my pet peeve issue is a Calc bug/feature request first filed in *2003* -- and is in the OOo bugzilla at <a href="https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=10864">https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=10864</a> . I actually filed one of the 12 dupes around 2006. The comment thread is pretty depressing. Apparently not low-hanging fruit or this would have been fixed ages ago right? It's a frustrating UI issue for users who are accustomed to Excel. <div>
<br></div><div>I always wondered if there was some dark reason this issue kept getting backburned when the project was still in OOo.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, I've done plenty of C++ and UI development projects so I'm not afraid of tackling it, but the codebase is pretty impenetrable for someone just starting out on this project. Pointers welcome! <div>
<br></div><div>..Billy</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Michael Meeks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.meeks@novell.com">michael.meeks@novell.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 13:52 -0700, Billy Charlton wrote:<br>
> I just did my first git clone of the core libreoffice codebase, hoping<br>
> to poke around to see if I could start helping out with some<br>
> bugfixing.<br>
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</div> Cool ! :-) what bug are you most interested in ? and/or have you<br>
grokked the easy hacks ? prolly the best way to get into the code is to<br>
ask questions and meet with the hackers on #libreoffice-dev on<br>
<a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a> - if you're not familiar with IRC, it is really worth<br>
getting into it - for interactive discussion & mentoring.<br>
<br>
There is a lot to do of course - one of the things that came up<br>
recently was the idea of getting:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/include-what-you-use/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/include-what-you-use/</a><br>
<br>
going, but that's prolly going to be quite a bit more difficult on<br>
Windows than Linux (many things are sadly).<br>
<br>
Anyhow - great to have you around & thanks for the report, looks like<br>
we'll get a nice fix to hide the (apparent) badness in those files -<br>
which we use as regression tests.<br>
<br>
All the best,<br>
<br>
Michael.<br>
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