[Sugar-devel] Regarding contribution in Sugar Repository

[Chihurumnaya Ibiam]

Hi Saumya,

If I understand correctly, you currently make changes to sugar locally from
a cloned repo and you're trying to get these changes to your Sugar VM,
if that's the case then you can either copy the files you changed to the VM
via ssh with rsync or scp and move the file to the right directory so you
can test it.

For changes to Sugar activities, you can clone activities in ~/Activities
in the VM and copy your changed files to the specific activity in that
folder, you should be
able to see the cloned activity from the activity ring in Sugar and to test
your changes you can start a new instance of the activity and you should be
able to see your changes.

For changes to sugar and it's core APIs, the source code in the vm can be
found at /usr/src/sugar(-artwork, -toolkit-gtk3, -datastore) and
/usr/src/gwebsockets,
you can build any of the APIs after copying your changes, check here
<https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-live-build/blob/master/src/config/hooks/normal/0900-sugar.hook.chroot>
for how to build any of the APIs.
Changes to any of the APIs can only be done as root and require a restart
to propagate.

Activity and Sugar logs can be found at ~/.sugar/default/logs.

If you use vim, you can make changes directly as you can access the VM via
ssh, this removes the need to copy files to the VM.

Hope that helps!

-- 

Ibiam Chihurumnaya
ibiam at sugarlabs.org



On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 2:53 PM Saumya Kushwaha <saumyakus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Respected Sir,
>
> I am Saumya Kushwaha, a CSE 2nd year student of IITBHU, India. I am
> already contributing to SugarLabs from December 2021 in many repositories.
> I have queries regarding contribution to the Sugar
> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar> repository. I have already set
> up the Sugar in my Virtual Machine and can access it via SSH.
>   But, I am not able to find how I actually connect the forked code of
> "Sugar" from my local environment to the Virtual Machine. I mean to say how
> after changing the code in my local environment can see the changes in
> Virtual machine. I had followed this
> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/development-environment.md>
> file but couldn't able to understand this thing properly.
> Could anyone please guide me, share an article or blog from where I can
> read, or let me know the steps like after cloning how I connect my Virtual
> Machine code to the local machine. SO that I can work on pending issues
> and contribute to Sugar.
>
> It would be a great help!
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Saumya Kushwaha
> Github: https://github.com/S-kus
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