[Dextrose] prerequisite skills for contributing code (was Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH v4 sugar] Pulsing icon delayed by 5 seconds or so SL#2080)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:59, Manusheel Gupta <manu at seeta.in> wrote:
> Tomeu,
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 00:07, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 18:23 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>> >> In my experience, it's easier start resolving tickets in activities
>> >> than in the plataform.
>> >> That worked for me:
>> >> * start writing a new activity: you can do stupid things, while learn
>> >> python and the interaction with the platform.
>> >> * try t resolve easy tickets in activities: there are many in
>> >> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ and http://dev.laptop.org/
>> >> * next try to solve problems in Sugar.
>> >
>> > I completely agree with you.
>>
>> This has been said several times to Seeta developers (and is valid for
>> everybody).
>>
>> Manu, could you please explain what learning are doing Seeta
>> developers before they try to submit a contribution?
>
> Appreciate the feedback.
> Sure, SEETA developers are going through the following training and patch
> submission workflow -
> 1. Revision/learning of Python, PyGTK skills through algorithms and
> programs;
> 2. Studying Sugar manual, and getting familiar with using the emulator and
> jhbuild;
> 3. James Simmon's guide on activity development (I do agree that this was
> not done for initial developers. But, every new developer is asked to study
> it);
> 4. Patch workflow and documentation on code reviews;
> 5. Asking the team members to go through certain patches accepted upstream,
> and submitted by Sascha, you and other team members;
> 6. Assignment of bugs and initial discussion with Aleksey and Bernie;
> 7. Submission of test patches in-house for peer review before submission to
> sugar-devel/dextrose/usr mailing lists;
> 8. Final submission.
> Wish if you could provide feedback, and let us know if we are missing on any
> step.

If you provide links to the materials used in each step, people could
suggest additions, start a section in the wiki and maybe write a TODO
list of the material that needs to be added or improved.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Regards,
> Manu
>
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
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