Hi everyone

[bhoessen]

Hi!

First, let me present myself. First thing first, my name is Benoît. I'm a PhD student in computer science (for those interested, my subject is trying to solve the satisfaction problem in parallel). I'm working everyday with c++ to achieve high performances and I've been working for one of the leader global distributed center.

For the openmw project, I wouldn't have a lot of time (~2 hours/week). So, if you have any tiny task or if I can prepare work for other, I'm free For instance, one of the things I can try to do, is to improve the documentation in the code...

Ben'

[ElderTroll]

Welcome! Documentation would be very helpful.

[Zini]

You should get started with the new developer checklist (link in the pinned thread). 2 hours a week are not a lot, but if you are consistent about it and stick with us for a while, you should still be able to get some work done. I suggest you pick a small to mid-size low priority task (I'll help you with picking once you are done with the checklist).
As for improving the code documentation, I am somewhat skeptical about that. We aren't in dire need of documentation improvements (even though there is certainly room for them) and since you haven't worked on OpenMW before you will have a hard time finding your way around in the code base well enough to actually improve the documentation (at least within a reasonable timescale).

[Zedd]

Welcome, hope you enjoy your time working on this project. Could you tell us how you first learned about OpenMW?

[sirherrbatka]

welcome!

[bhoessen]

You should get started with the new developer checklist (link in the pinned thread).

Done

even though there is certainly room for them

A run on doxygen generates 5714 warnings

2 hours a week are not a lot

Yes, I know. If you think this might not be enough (spending more time to coordinate me compared to the time I might spare the team), let me know, I would totally understand! I don't want to be a drag

I suggest you pick a small to mid-size low priority task

Sure

Could you tell us how you first learned about OpenMW?

Hum... don't remember exactly. Either on reddit or rock paper shotgun I guess...

Welcome!

Welcome

welcome!

Thanks!

[raevol]

bhoessen, master of the multi-quote.

[Zini]

A run on doxygen generates 5714 warnings

Matches my definition of

even though there is certainly room for them

well enough.

There are plenty of false positives of the type

warning: The following parameters of MWWorld::World::placeObject(const Ptr &object, float cursorX, float cursorY) are not documented:

We definitely do not require documentation on every single function parameter. Would be nice to disable this kind of warnings, but I don't know if Doxygen has a switch for that.

The rest is mostly typos. If that does not bore you to death, you can certainly have a go at fixing them.

We even have a task for that: https://bugs.openmw.org/issues/164