[Sugar-devel] Response in Re: you needed Assistance

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Mon May 14 03:00:38 EDT 2018


On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:03:51PM +0530, Pratul Kumar wrote:
> *Hello James,
> Hope you are doing well.
> 
>  This all information would be part of Developer Dashboard
> 
> > Repositories must also include those that are not in the /sugarlabs/
> organization, such as the Help Activity and many others.
> 
> For this, if you can let me know regarding other potential repositories, then I
> can have a add them to my script too.

No, not really.  Members of Sugar Labs have never been _required_ to
keep their contributions in one place.  You would have to ask each
member.

We have some of those repositories cloned to /sugarlabs/, but probably
not all of them.  Cloned repositories are not kept up to date.

An example of an important repository that should be tracked is the
repository from which /sugarlabs/sugarizer is cloned.

> > I still don't think a developer dashboard will help Sugar Labs at a social
> level, because we have so few developers.
> 
> Each year new developer's are there around GCI who are looking for the
> organization to contribute and be their part,

We may not be successful in applying for GCI this year.  Our care and
diligence as a community should recognise that possibility and plan
for it as well.

> What I feel that want things to be ease contribute to the organization through
> Github, but without having the knowledge to do so they step back.
> Further, new developers need some social rewards for their work, if that can be
> reflected in our Developer Dashboard.
> Let us give a try to improve our developer count through this methodology,
> although it won't give a drastic improvement.

As I said, I don't mind if you try, it's just that your argument and
others argument is unconvincing.  Amazing claims need amazing
evidence, and the evidence so far is not amazing.  Tony's assessment
of how badly Sugar runs on Ubuntu 18.04 is more real.

> If required then that can be used to organize our own program like GCI for
> about a months before GCI with a bit similar methodology, where our new mentors
> can know what they need to do during GCI. This is to engage a greater number of
> Developers to Sugarlabs.
>> Regards,
> Pratul Kumar
> 
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Pratul Kumar <[1]pratulkumar1997 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>     *Hello Vipul,
>     Hope you are doing well.
> 
>     Thanks, Vipul for your initiative for help, yesterday I figured out the
>     methodology for my problem.
>     I used GitHub API instead using any NPM module or library. I read your mail
>     after I had sorted out the problem.
>     Once again I would like to thank you for the same.
> 
>     Regards,
>     Pratul Kumar
> 
>     On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 2:27 AM, James Cameron <[2]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>         All data from GitHub issues would be useful for a developer dashboard.
> 
>         It's not simple.  Repositories must also include those that are not in
>         the /sugarlabs/ organisation, such as the Help Activity, and many
>         others.
> 
>         Pratul is writing a web application, and likely coding in JavaScript,
>         so the GitHub REST API [3]https://developer.github.com/v3/ should have
>         what is needed.  If Pratul has a problem with the API, ask GitHub Help
>         team or #github IRC channel. The GitHub API is not part of Sugar.
> 
>         I still don't think a developer dashboard will help Sugar Labs at a
>         social level, because we have so few developers, but I've no objection
>         to someone trying it.
>        
>         On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 10:44:59AM +0530, Vipul Gupta wrote:
>         > Hi, 
>         > Over the problem, you were having - You need all issues of a every
>         Repository
>         > in Sugar Labs. I would need some clarification on the same. 
>         >
>         > 1. How do you need all the issues (Issue description, just titles, on
>         respect
>         > to what, repo to repo or some other criteria?)
>         > 2. Why Javascript, I couldn't understand this part. Shouldn't you
>         need the
>         > output in a more accessible format like JSON for instance? You can
>         use the
>         > GitHub API for the same (I strongly recommend PyGitHub)
>         >
>         > Cordially, 
>         > Vipul Gupta 
>         > [1]Mixster | [2]Github
>         > Ps - I did read your messages, that day on IRC. I made the draft at
>         night but
>         > forgot to send it until now and yesterday I was busy with my
>         community meetup. 
>         >
>         > References:
>         >
>         > [1] [4]https://mixstersite.wordpress.com/
>         > [2] [5]https://github.com/vipulgupta2048
> 
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>         --
>         James Cameron
>         [8]http://quozl.netrek.org/
>    
> 
>     --
>>     Pratul Kumar | Sophomore LNMIIT | +91-8107525493
> 
>         GCI Mentor SugarLabs, Mentor & Beta Tester at Coursera, HKUST
>         University
>         Stanford Scholar Internship, Mozilla Club Captain LNMIIT, Head of
>         Developers Group HackerEarth
>          [s] [9]LinkedIn [s] [10]Github _  [s] 
>    
> 
> --
>> Pratul Kumar | Sophomore LNMIIT | +91-8107525493
> 
>     GCI Mentor SugarLabs, Mentor & Beta Tester at Coursera, HKUST University
>     Stanford Scholar Internship, Mozilla Club Captain LNMIIT, Head of
>     Developers Group HackerEarth
>      [s] [11]LinkedIn _ [12]Github _  [s] 
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:pratulkumar1997 at gmail.com
> [2] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [3] https://developer.github.com/v3/
> [4] https://mixstersite.wordpress.com/
> [5] https://github.com/vipulgupta2048
> [6] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [7] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> [8] http://quozl.netrek.org/
> [9] https://www.linkedin.com/in/pratul1997/
> [10] https://github.com/Pratul1997
> [11] https://www.linkedin.com/in/pratul1997/
> [12] https://github.com/Pratul1997

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