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

[Manusheel Gupta]

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.

Regards,

Manu





> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
>
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