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Where on Mozillazine would you suggest raising these questions? We've got General, Builds, Features and Bugs. Nothing for newbie-developers.
I feel like I'm being told to go get lost in the forest. If this project wants to involve new blood, the "if you can't figure it out yourself, don't bother us" attitude has got to change. [[User:L Squared|L2]]]
Agree that the figure it out yourself part must stop, and I personally think it is very ff/tb oriented. I remember when I posted my "Why am I not contributing code (yet)" blog, I got a quick and friendly response from a gecko developer with some easy starters and a bit of hand helding when I had questions.
For a newbie developer I think 2 things are very importent when trying to get startet:
1) try and find a area you want to help out in e.g. "backend", browser, mail, adressbook or whatever. That will make it easier for people to point you in the right direction. It is more tricky if you just say "I wanna fix bugs" :-)
2) be upfront with what you know beforehand, so that they don't point you to c++ bugs if you only know XUL and stuff like that.
Basicly the important part is to minimize the time wasted, because that leaaves more time for helping.
