<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 6 Feb 2016, at 10:23 AM, ty armour <<a href="mailto:aarmour@cipmail.org" class="">aarmour@cipmail.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">I am looking for tutorials on how to basically write every aspect of libreoffice so that I and indeed anyone can contribute useful and meaningful code.<br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>We have <a href="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org" class="">wiki.documentfoundation.org</a></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">I mean every aspect of writing libre office. from your version of word to your version of powerpoint. I need tutorials and theories for every line of code.<br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>That’s probably never going to happen - though more documentation is always great, there’s a certain level of code reading ability you need if you want to hack on the core code :-)<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Also, you might consider writing an online version of libre office and make it compatable with word. <br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Already started :-)</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=online.git;a=blob;f=loolwsd/README;hb=HEAD" class="">https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=online.git;a=blob;f=loolwsd/README;hb=HEAD</a></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>I dont know if you guys have compatability so that I can open word documents and powerpoint documents in libre office. if you do cool if not then add another tutorial.<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Ummm… we’ve been doing this for years. </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">but yeah I need tutorials on all of the code so that I and anyone can help contribute to libre office and make it better. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Any contributions are always greatfully accepted! Try <a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development" class="">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development</a> </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">also, you might consider making a windows version or compiling this software with cygwin or mingw and posting tutorials on that.<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>We do this already.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWindows" class="">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWindows</a></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">get creative and the more tutorials the better, because then anyone and everyone can contribute meaningful code.<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">We’re always looking for folks to help us document the codebase :-) Developing LibreOffice can have a steep learning curve, but if I could recommend the first thing to do is to use git to get the source code, then build it successfully, then hack away!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I find that <a href="http://opengrok.libreoffice.org" class="">http://opengrok.libreoffice.org</a> is a great start if you want to just read the codebase. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Once you start finding things to fix, then have a look at the gerrit pages on the Wiki. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Welcome aboard :-) Great to see folks who want to contribute, we’re pretty friendly and there’s a place for everyone. What programming skills do you have, out of interest?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris</div></body></html>