[parted-devel] interested in developing GParted

[Curtis Gedak]

Sorry for the late reply to this email.  It would appear that this email 
was caught up in a mail queue and was only recently released.


Helping with open source projects can be a rewarding way to contribute 
back to the Free Open Source Software community.

An internet search for "how to get started in open source" will return 
many interesting links to read.  One useful link I found was "6 Easy 
Ways to Get Started Programming Open Source":
http://grok-code.com/108/6-easy-ways-to-get-started-programming-open-source/


Since this is the parted mailing list, I will provide a short 
description that outlines some of the differences between the Parted and 
GParted projects:

PARTED
The parted project is a stand alone partitioning tool.  It deals 
directly with the low level handling of disk device partitions and 
provides a library to access these features called libparted.  The 
project also includes a command line interface to the libparted 
library.  Parted is mostly written in 'C'.  The parted web site can be 
viewed at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/index.shtml

GPARTED
GParted is to a large degree a graphical user interface that uses the 
libparted library to perform partition manipulation.  GParted uses other 
third party tools to handle file systems not supported by libparted.  
GParted is mostly written in 'C++'.  If you would like to help out with 
GParted, you can learn more at the following link:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/howtohelp.php


Hopefully this email will help you get started developing Open Source 
Software.  :)

Regards,
Curtis Gedak

Ubuntu Rocks wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am saurabh from India.I have around 4 years work experience of C on 
> Linux.
> I have been working on network/multithreaded programming.
> I am interested in developing GParted.
> I don't know much about storage/partitions domain,still I know enough 
> to be able to
> manipulate my partitions using fdisk when the need arises.I have been 
> using GParted
> and I am a fan of it.
>
> I would like to know if I can be of any use to GParted team.
>
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Saurabh