[Scons-dev] Contribution to SCons development.

[Dirk Bächle]

Shreedhar,

On 18.11.2014 07:29, Shreedhar Manek wrote:
> Hi,
> I had emailed on here a few days back asking for some help so that I 
> can contribute to SCons. I'm grateful for the response and I read the 
> guides that I was directed to.
>
> I read up to chapter 8 of the documentation beyond which it was 
> getting a tad bit complicated for me. I shall absolutely get back to 
> it later (college end semester exams coming up!). I also looked around 
> on the other links (man page, developer's guide).
>
> I checked the bug marked 'easy' on tigris and I found this one which 
> I'd like to fix - http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2494. 
> Unfortunately, I have absolutely no idea what I should do next to go 
> about fixing the same. What do I do next?
>
the next steps for you would be:

   - ensuring that you can run your forked version of the repo (see 
README.rst in top-level folder)
   - running a full regression test with "python runtest.py -a"
   - finding the "Chmod" method in the sources
   - ensuring that it's the right place you've found, for example by 
adding a simple print statement to it
   - changing the "Chmod" to show the wanted behaviour
   - running the regression test again, to ensure that you didn't break 
anything
   - adapting/adding tests and documentation for the new/changed 
functionality
   - create your pull request

or something along those lines.

Best regards,

Dirk