[Sugar-devel] Contribution to sugar labs

Sumit Srivastava sumitsrisumit at gmail.com
Tue Mar 12 16:54:44 EDT 2019


While I agree googling is an essential skill, we should probably add it in
docs, no?

On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, 2:20 am James Cameron, <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> Here's how to do it;
>
> https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-a-pull-request
>
> Our Sugar Labs documents for contributing don't have every answer,
> sorry.  Some skills are external.
>
> By the way, if you had made a local "git clone" on your own computer,
> then done a "git push", the server will have sent back instructions
> how to make a pull request.
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 01:54:51AM +0530, navyasri reddy wrote:
> > I have changed the readme and pushed to forked repo in my github
> account. How
> > do I raise a pull request to original repo. I have seen the docs for
> > contributing but didn't get it much.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:15 AM Sumit Srivastava <[1]
> sumitsrisumit at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     Yes, Jaskirat. The reply all button is a wonderful little thing and
> poses
> >     much less friction than new members would otherwise experience.
> >
> >     On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, 12:06 am Jaskirat Singh, <[2]
> juskirat2000 at gmail.com>
> >     wrote:
> >
> >         Thanks Sumit,
> >
> >         This sounds like a better choice for the people helping new
> >         contributors to get started.
> >
> >         On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, 12:04 am Sumit Srivastava, <[3]
> >         sumitsrisumit at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >             Navya,
> >
> >             Good to see you figuring out the codebase! Check out
> instructions
> >             on downloading and running musicblocks. It should be present
> in the
> >             musicblocks documentation. It states:
> >
> >             "If you want to run Music Blocks offline, download this repo
> and
> >             point your browser to the index.html file found in the
> musicblocks
> >             directory on your local file system."
> >
> >             Also, if you post your questions directly to [4]
> >             sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org , more people can come in
> and
> >             contribute. I am sorry if you had a rough start but rest
> assured,
> >             the community is awesome!
> >
> >             I'll be available at sugar-devel mailing list and so would
> be a lot
> >             other experienced developers in the community. Always better
> to
> >             expose your questions to more people, right? For this
> thread, you
> >             can use "reply-all" button on gmail to directly post to
> sugarlabs
> >             devel list and me.
> >
> >             Keep asking questions! :)
> >
> >             Regards
> >             Sumit Srivastava
> >
> >             On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, 11:51 pm navyasri reddy, <[5]
> >             navyasrireddy1996 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >                 Hey,
> >                 Thanks for helping me out with this. I have found
> through the
> >                 other issues that the sound sample need to have same
> pitch
> >                 through out which is not mentioned in the readme and also
> >                 testing whether the sound is added properly or not is
> also not
> >                 there in the readme.
> >                 I am not sure how to test it. Can you direct me so that
> i can
> >                 test and update readme.
> >
> >                 Thanks.
> >
> >                 On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 7:08 PM Sumit Srivastava <[6]
> >                 sumitsrisumit at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >                     Hi, navyasri!
> >
> >                     It'd be great if you post publicly to the sugar devel
> >                     mailing list. While I have no problem with replying
> to your
> >                     question privately, the community as a whole
> benefits more
> >                     from public discussions like these.
> >
> >                     Don't worry you can post all kinds of beginner
> questions,
> >                     even the one you think might be silly, to the
> mailing list.
> >                     :)
> >
> >                     Here are the steps to approach the issue:
> >
> >                     -Fork the branch.
> >
> >                     -Take a look at the instructions to add sample sound.
> >
> >                     -Try and do it yourself.
> >
> >                     -Did you find instructions were useful? Do they need
> to be
> >                     updated? (Hint: Yes, because of which the issue was
> >                     created)
> >
> >                     -Figure out how can you better explain the process
> you
> >                     followed to add a sample sound.
> >
> >                     -Write it down.
> >
> >                     -Commit to your branch, test, and then request to
> merge.
> >
> >                     Regards
> >                     Sumit Srivastava
> >
> >                     On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, 2:16 pm navyasri reddy, <[7]
> >                     navyasrireddy1996 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >                         Hey,
> >                         This is navyasri. I wan to contribute to music
> blocks
> >                         by starting with some basic contribution (below
> >                         attached). This is about updating readme but I
> am not
> >                         clear with the issue. There's no reply to extra
> >                         information on this issue. A help for this would
> be
> >                         appreciated.
> >                         [8]
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/musicblocks/issues/1468
> >
> >                         Thanks,
> >                         navyasri
> >
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> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1] mailto:sumitsrisumit at gmail.com
> > [2] mailto:juskirat2000 at gmail.com
> > [3] mailto:sumitsrisumit at gmail.com
> > [4] mailto:sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [5] mailto:navyasrireddy1996 at gmail.com
> > [6] mailto:sumitsrisumit at gmail.com
> > [7] mailto:navyasrireddy1996 at gmail.com
> > [8] https://github.com/sugarlabs/musicblocks/issues/1468
> > [9] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [10] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>
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> James Cameron
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