Obversive Wiki - View Source: GettingStarted

You'll need to do a few things before you can start working on the project.  We are willing to let anyone who wants contribute to the project, but you must first contact the current developers at obversive-devel@lists.sourceforge.net asking to join.  You'll want to tell us what you want to contribute, and possibly some information about your background.  We'll then talk it over and see where we can put you.

Once you have been accepted into the project, you'll need to these things:

# Get a sourceforge.net account and tell us what it is.  We'll then add you to the project officially.
# Check out the obversive source code from CVS.
# Get and install the required tools:
  * SCons 0.8 or better -- http://www.scons.org/
  * FOX 1.1.21 or better -- http://www.fox-toolkit.org/
  * LibTPT 1.10.5 or better -- http://tazthecat.net/~isaac/libtpt/
  * libxml2 -- http://xmlsoft.org/
  * Any pre-requisites that the above libraries need.

# Read up on the SCons build system at http://www.scons.org/.  Don't worry,  it's not too difficult (much easier than autoconf ever could be).
# Try a build.  Contact us to get everything to work.

Once you have this stuff all installed, and you've managed to get one build, then you'll want to read the rest of the developer documentation and coordinate with us about what you'll work on.  Make sure that you read the ProjectStatus, MilestoneReleasePlan, WorkBacklog, and SoftwareWorkproducts.  Finally, you'll want to work yourself into the project and start writing code.  Make sure you do something that contributes towards the next milestone release.