[SoaS] want to contribute to Sugar on a Stick - introducing myself

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda
<callkalpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda <callkalpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks Peter for the reply.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Kalpa,
>>>>
>>>>> I am Kalpa Welivitigoda from Sri Lanka.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was searching for a FOSS project to contribute on and I came across
>>>>> Sugar on a Stick through OpenHatch.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am involved in Fedora Project [1] , Mozilla Firefox and have
>>>>> contributed in lokalizing  some of the other projects including
>>>>> OpenOffice, pidgin, GNOME etc. Apart from them I am active on Hanthana
>>>>> Linux [2], a local project. Hanthana is a remix of Fedora. I attend
>>>>> FOSS related events and talk about FOSS to make the public aware. I
>>>>> currently write to two local e-magazines (FOSS User [3] and Hanthana+,
>>>>> yet to be released.)
>>>>>
>>>>> In technical aspects, I am familiar with java and python and uses
>>>>> Fedora as my primary and only OS. In Sugar on a Stick I hope to make
>>>>> use of my python knowledge and learn more on python. I also wish to
>>>>> package applications and actually I have done one related to fedora
>>>>> Sound SIG [4]. But it is not upstream yet since there are some more
>>>>> sound tracks to be added. I wish to learn further on packaging also.
>>>>>
>>>>> So at the moment the ways I can contribute to Sugar on a Stick will be with;
>>>>> 1) testing
>>>>> 2) fixing bugs or adding new features to existing activities (depend
>>>>> on the level of python expertise needed)
>>>>> 3) packaging activities for fedora
>>>>>
>>>>> I am reading for my BSc of Eng degree major in Electrical Engineering
>>>>> and I wish to contribute to FOSS in my leisure time.
>>>>>
>>>>> My irc nickname is callkalpa
>>>>>
>>>>> Please help me get started!
>>>>
>>>> Welcome! I'd be more than happy to help get you started. There's all
>>>> sorts of things to do to get started.
>>>>
>>>> 1) We can never do enough testing! We have nightly builds of SoaS that
>>>> are available at the link below. All feed back to the mailing list is
>>>> great, fixes to any bugs is even better :-)
>>>>
>>>> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/
>>>>
>>>> 2) Fixing and adding of features is very welcome. Some of the things
>>>> that come directly to mind is improved internationalisation support
>>>> with in SoaS, some means within the UI to update the OS. I'm sure I
>>>> have more that don't come direct to mind at the moment.
>>>>
>>>> I have a few ideas so feel free to ping me on IRC if you want to
>>>> discuss it some more. My nick is pbrobinson and I'm usually hanging
>>>> out in #fedora-mobility or #sugar
>>>>
>>>> 3) For packaging you can see what's currently packages with "yum list
>>>> sugar*" and anything not in that list it would be great to package. If
>>>> your interested in assisting in maintaining existing packages that
>>>> would be great!
>>>>
>>>
>>> testing and bug fixing, I'll look into as time permits. For the moment
>>> I though to stick for translations and packaging.
>>
>> Cool, if you need any assistance with packaging please ask. If your
>> already a Fedora packager and would like to co-maintain and of the
>> Sugar Activities let me know, I would quite happily add you to the
>> ownership to help maintain them.
>>
>
> Well, I am not already a Fedora packager, this is my first package
> submitted (there is one more and that is not submitted). I'm waiting
> for this package to be approved. Next I will package some more
> applications and then I will move to co-maintain. Some experience will
> make the work easy :-)

I'll have a look at the package soon, I found that working by example
is quite useful, I'm not currently a sponsor but I should probably
sort that out too.

Peter