On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 at 12:48, Rahul Sharma via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
So far I have been reading multiple documentations and reading the projects from past year GSoC and exploring some modules given on the GitHub and I came to understand now that in order to contribute to this organization the knowledge of only C++ and data structures is not enough.
Well, you will need to find a project (i.e. Boost library) of your interest.
I have some questions which are halting my progress so far, it would be very generous of you if someone could address these issues I am facing…… 1. I am unable to understand the code base in the repositories on GitHub.
It's fairly simple, boostorg/boost is a super-project which refers individual libraries in their own boostorg/<lib> repositories via Git submodules.
2. In order to contribute or to understand things in a better way do I need to learn how Boost libraries work.
You will need to learn how to build the collection of Boost libraries and how to run tests of a library of your interest. Then, you will need to learn internals of the library of your interest in order to be able to contribute to it, obviously/
3. What are some packages I need to install.
Typically, a C++ compilation toolset on platform of your choice. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net