On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Tan4ik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tan4ik@gmail.com">tan4ik@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>I'm new to open-source in general and to LLVM in particular.</div>
<div>I'd like to contribute and was thinking of starting from <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=5639" target="_blank">http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=5639</a></div>
<div>What the next step should be? Should I register somewhere?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>1. Register for an account at the LLVM Bugzilla (the link you sent above).</div><div>2. Find a bug to work on (as you've done already)</div>
<div>3. Accept the bug to show that you're working on it, so that effort isn't duplicated</div><div>4. Post a patch (and test case, if applicable) that fixes the bug</div><div>5. Respond to feedback and iterate to revise your patch as needed, until someone accepts and submits your patch</div>
<div>6. Mark bug as "fixed"</div><div>7. Repeat from step 2</div><div><br></div><div>Misha</div></div>