[Sugar-devel] Contribution to sugar labs

Sumit Srivastava sumitsrisumit at gmail.com
Tue Mar 12 18:54:39 EDT 2019


James, that's great! Yup, I agree. ;-)

On Wed, 13 Mar 2019, 4:18 am James Cameron, <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> We have a link in contributing.md;
>
> "We use the pull-request model, see [GitHub's help on pull-request](
> https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests)."
>
> But people can't be expected to remember everything.  ;-)
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 02:24:44AM +0530, Sumit Srivastava 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, <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> >     Here's how to do it;
> >
> >     [2]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][3]
> >     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][4]
> >     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]
> >     >         [5]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]
> >     >             [6]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]
> >     >             [7]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]
> >     >                 [8]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]
> >     >                     [9]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][10]
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/musicblocks/
> >     issues/1468
> >     >
> >     >                         Thanks,
> >     >                         navyasri
> >     >
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> >     >             [10][12]
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> >     >
> >     > References:
> >     >
> >     > [1] mailto:[13]sumitsrisumit at gmail.com
> >     > [2] mailto:[14]juskirat2000 at gmail.com
> >     > [3] mailto:[15]sumitsrisumit at gmail.com
> >     > [4] mailto:[16]sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> >     > [5] mailto:[17]navyasrireddy1996 at gmail.com
> >     > [6] mailto:[18]sumitsrisumit at gmail.com
> >     > [7] mailto:[19]navyasrireddy1996 at gmail.com
> >     > [8] [20]https://github.com/sugarlabs/musicblocks/issues/1468
> >     > [9] mailto:[21]Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> >     > [10] [22]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> >
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> >
> >     --
> >     James Cameron
> >     [25]http://quozl.netrek.org/
> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> > [2] https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-a-pull-request
> > [3] mailto:sumitsrisumit at gmail.com
> > [4] mailto:juskirat2000 at gmail.com
> > [5] mailto:sumitsrisumit at gmail.com
> > [6] mailto:sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [7] mailto:navyasrireddy1996 at gmail.com
> > [8] mailto:sumitsrisumit at gmail.com
> > [9] mailto:navyasrireddy1996 at gmail.com
> > [10] https://github.com/sugarlabs/musicblocks/issues/1468
> > [11] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [12] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> > [13] mailto:sumitsrisumit at gmail.com
> > [14] mailto:juskirat2000 at gmail.com
> > [15] mailto:sumitsrisumit at gmail.com
> > [16] mailto:sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [17] mailto:navyasrireddy1996 at gmail.com
> > [18] mailto:sumitsrisumit at gmail.com
> > [19] mailto:navyasrireddy1996 at gmail.com
> > [20] https://github.com/sugarlabs/musicblocks/issues/1468
> > [21] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [22] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> > [23] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [24] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> > [25] http://quozl.netrek.org/
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>
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