[platform-dev] I would like to help with SWT contributions

[Ned Twigg <ned.twigg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!  I really like SWT.  I like contributing to open source, and I have a hard time contributing to SWT.  I would like to help make it easier to contribute.

I found and documented a simple bug two years ago.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=520488

Today, Niraj very generously supplied a fix, but he cannot test it because he doesn't have a mac.  I figured the least I could do was help test it, but I cannot get the build to work.  I tried to follow the README/CONTRIBUTING, but it seems that a lot of the info there is stale.

Is there anyone who can help get me setup?  I will document the process, and update the README / CONTRIBUTING.  I also plan to run a GitHub mirror with public CI, so that it is easier for people like me to at least get started with contributing back to SWT.

Ned Twigg

Lead Software Architect, DiffPlug LLC

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