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* '''The Procedure for Contributing Changesets''' | * '''The Procedure for Contributing Changesets''' | ||
*: You will be expected to follow the same procedures as other contributors and core developers. | *: You will be expected to follow the same procedures as other contributors and core developers. | ||
*: You will be helping current and future Octave developers by using our standard style for changes, commit messages, and so on. You should also read the same [ | *: You will be helping current and future Octave developers by using our standard style for changes, commit messages, and so on. You should also read the same [http://wiki.octave.org/Contribution_guidelines contribution] [http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/tip/etc/HACKING.md guidelines] we have for everyone. | ||
*: [[Hg_instructions_for_mentors#Mercurial_Tips_for_SoC_students | This page]] describes the procedures students are expected to use to publicly display their progress in a public mercurial repo during their work. | *: [[Hg_instructions_for_mentors#Mercurial_Tips_for_SoC_students | This page]] describes the procedures students are expected to use to publicly display their progress in a public mercurial repo during their work. | ||
* '''The Maintainers Mailing List''' | * '''The Maintainers Mailing List''' | ||
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*: Unless your primary mentor has a strong preference for some other method of communication, the IRC channel will likely be your primary means of communicating with your mentor and Octave developers. | *: Unless your primary mentor has a strong preference for some other method of communication, the IRC channel will likely be your primary means of communicating with your mentor and Octave developers. | ||
* '''The Octave Forge Project''' | * '''The Octave Forge Project''' | ||
*: [ | *: [https://octave.sourceforge.io/ Octave-Forge] is a collection of contributed packages that enhance the capabilities of core Octave. They are somewhat analogous to Matlab's toolboxes. | ||
* '''Related Skills''' | * '''Related Skills''' | ||
*: In addition, you probably should know '''some''' mathematics, engineering, experimental science, or something of the sort. | *: In addition, you probably should know '''some''' mathematics, engineering, experimental science, or something of the sort. | ||