From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tomas Nordin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I want to contribute and chose right project for graduate thesis Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 23:16:09 +0200 Message-ID: <87vaml32zq.fsf@fliptop> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500671864 17658 195.159.176.226 (21 Jul 2017 21:17:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 21:17:44 +0000 (UTC) To: Mario =?utf-8?B?S3JhamHEjWnEhw==?= , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 21 23:17:36 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dYfIj-0003s9-R0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 23:17:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44783 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYfIm-0008Re-7e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:17:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39681) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYfHZ-00082r-2d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYfHV-0001dp-UK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:16:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]:34178) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYfHV-0001aC-Mm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:16:17 -0400 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A1E9B20DE6 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 23:16:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 3xDk8W2p2DzysV; Fri, 21 Jul 2017 23:16:11 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 185.67.36.66 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113816 Archived-At: Mario Kraja=C4=8Di=C4=87 writes: > Hello, > > I am student of IT from Croatia on finishing year for my bachelor's degre= e. > > For the graduate thesis I would like to contribute some open source > project. For example it can be some bug fix. Language in I work is C. My > knowledge is shown in programs on git profile: https://github.com/mkrajaci As mentioned elsewhere on this thread, maybe a bug fix is a bit specific for a thesis work, but doesn't have to be of course. I just wanted to give a tip on a discussion going on right now on the coreutils list on the program cut. cut is a program for getting selected delimited fields from a file. Some people over the years has requested the possibility for the program to respect the order of the fields specified (cut will maintain the order of fields in the file). The maintainers thinks this /might/ be a good feature but will not implement it because it can be done by combining cut with other tools plus none of them see the need. They will however re-view patches. Anyways, see this thread for details: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-07/msg00025.html It is said in that thread that because of how cut is implemented, this feature addition is non-trivial to implement. If one is prepared for the possibility that the feature is not added despite it might work to a certain degree, it could be a very good exercise I imagine. I am sure they would give help and feedback along the way.