[Sugar-devel] Contribution to sugar labs
Sumit Srivastava
sumitsrisumit at gmail.com
Tue Mar 12 16:56:35 EDT 2019
I meant to reference the skill of "creating pull requests and contributing"
and not "googling". Just clarifying that it wasn't a snarky remark.
On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, 2:24 am Sumit Srivastava, <sumitsrisumit at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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
>> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>>
>
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