Request: How can a beginner be of help?

Im-dex / xray-162

XRay engine 1.6.2 (S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat) evolution

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Request: How can a beginner be of help? #36

Open ghost opened 7 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

I'm very much a beginner to C++. I mostly work with the rendering code these days. Is there any way I can be of help, maybe with some small tasks that you don't feel like doing?

Im-dex commented 7 years ago

@Swartz27 Hi! There are many things that a beginner can do:

fix warnings and small bugs, or port them from the external repos
fix simple issues like #25
improve x64 support: fix incorrect format strings, replace platform dependent types by the portable ones
do refactoring, improve old code by the new language features (for example, replace a macro boolshit by the variadic templates etc.)
implement any new features that you want and which could be useful for the mod developers

The main requirement: try don't break backward compatibility with cop 1.6.2

375gnu commented 7 years ago

What about fixing bugs uncovered by pvs-studio (https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0405/)?

Im-dex commented 7 years ago

@375gnu The warnings analysis requires a lot of time. Most of them found in rarely used code which insignificantly affects the engine stability. So I will fix this but not in the nearest future cause I have more important tasks now.

375gnu commented 7 years ago

@Im-dex it's an example of work suitable for beginners.

ghost commented 7 years ago

All sounds good. I've done some minor stuff in my branch, but I will do more. Since rendering is my main area I'll try and clean up that stuff first.

ghost commented 6 years ago

I'm going to get back on the ball. You've been busy so I want to help in the few ways I can. I'm going to port a lot more changes and try and squash some bugs in my fork, then I'll do a pull request.