Experiences building LO from scratch as a "new" developer

[jan]

Hi Mike,

Thanks a lot for doing this. Excellent idea!

Jan

Am 03.08.2017 um 17:10 schrieb Mike Saunders:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> You may know me from doing marketing work and videos for TDF. But a
> while back I was talking to some developers and we had an idea: I should
> try to build LO from scratch (something I've never done before), using
> our existing documentation, to find out what could be improved.
> 
> I'm pretty geeky (been using Linux since 1998, know my way around the
> Bash prompt, and have written programming tutorials for magazines) so
> I'm probably quite representative of a typical new LO developer.
> 
> I've described my findings below, running a fresh installation of
> Xubuntu 17.04. Overall the process wasn't too complicated, although
> there are some rather confusing bits, and places where we could provide
> more info. Let me know what you think!