Hello there

[Michael Pyne]

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> I appologize ahead if I am not reading something, or if your repeating
> instructions you already gave me.  I am just trying to get the process
> down of what I should be doing to help, as to not waste valuable testing
> time.

Don't worry, we all have to start somewhere.

> I have an account setup on bugzilla, and I have been spending a bit of
> time reading other various reports trying to get a feel of what style is
> used when posting a bug.

Perhaps you should read http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
Eric Raymond also created a guide, but I couldn't find it after a quick Google 
serach.

> I am not sure what I am supposed to be doing now though ;-/ .   Should I
> pick a bug, such as :

Well, don't pick a bug that you can't work on.  What you might want to do is 
search for a suitable bug that has a lot of votes on it.  Or pick an 
application you'd like to get familiar with, and find a bug for it you can 
work on.

You don't even have to work on bugs.  Documentation and such doesn't require 
fixing programming errors.  Maybe you can work on What's This help for an 
application lacking it.  From what I understand, it's not hard to add.  There 
should be a tutorial somewhere about that.

> I hope I am not sounding too pushy by asking for explicit direction on
> where my time is best spent.

Well, I just asked something to that effect myself.  When you first starting 
contributing to a large open-source project, it can be hard just to know 
where to start.

> Thanks again in advance for the response, and for your patience,
> hopefully I am not missing the wide open clues to answer my own
> questions ;/

All I'd ask is that you only include in your e-mail replies the specific part 
of the message you're responding to.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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