How I Contributed to the Swift Open Source Project

In this lightning talk I explain my experience making a contribution to the Swift open source project.

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1. HOW I CONTRIBUTED TO THE SWIFT OPEN SOURCE PROJECT @dmartincy
2. IDEA Default indentation for switch cases is crazy. Can we fix it?
3. VALIDATION Post in the mailing list
4. THE CODEBASE • Fork from https://github.com/apple/swift • Keep “origin” remote at the above URL. • Create a “fork” remote pointing to your fork. • Compile with ./utils/build-script -R
5. THE TOOLS • You can generate an Xcode project. • Although a text editor suffices. I use Emacs with some external tools.
6. BABY STEPS • I first fixed typos or helped converting the documentation to Markdown. • Apple and external reviewers are very friendly. • Learn a bit of C++11 and LLVM, you’ll use them.
7. WHAT’S NEXT? • Add support for styles to swift-format • Maybe, refactoring tools? • Better build dependency management • Slack channel! http://www.swift-oss.org/