[cfe-dev] New to clang

[Sebastian Redl]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:55:23 -0700, Anis Ahmad <anis.ahmad.oss at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for another "newbie" message.  I'd read about clang, and am quite
> excited about what it could offer (I'm a game developer, so better C++
> tools
> and compilers could help quite a bit).

No need to say sorry. We love getting new people here.

> 
> My own experience with language development/implementation has been
limited
> to relatively simple languages (shading languages and the like). 
However,
> I'd like to help out any way I can, even if it's simple tasks/fixes. 
Being
> new to OSS development, I'm not sure what the process is.  Do I send my
> candidate change, as a patch, to the commits mailing list?
> 

Yes, that's how it works. But if you haven't started on your patch yet, you
might want to tell this list what you're going to do first. We've had
conflicts before, where two people implemented the same thing.

Sebastian