I'm a student with good knowledge in C programming and like to contribute any open source project which is developed in C. I searched SourceForge and selected 7-Zip because its widely used one and developed using C.
I thought to start first by fixing bugs (which was suggested by many people in their websites) and gone through few bugs but couldn't understand how to respond to them and how to start fixing them. I didn't understand anything.
Could you please explain how to approach this? I have even gone through some files in the source code which I downloaded but didn't understood anything.
Best Answer
Here is one suggestion:
Feature Requests: use "move" instead of "copy" from temp folder - ID: 1615140
And I will explain why I pick this bug as example.
Before you decide to pick this project...
First step: can you reproduce the bug?
temp
folder has low free space (1-2 GB), (2) the extraction destination is on same drive astemp
folder.Second step: Can you locate the code responsible for this behavior?
Third step: Make modifications and see how it affects the program's behavior.
Fourth step: Present your changes to your coworkers/peer developers and get feedback.