[Sugar-devel] Regarding contribution in Sugar Repository

[Chihurumnaya Ibiam]

Glad I could help, also when replying to the emails use the reply-all
option instead so the email can also be sent to the list.

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Ibiam Chihurumnaya
ibiam at sugarlabs.org



On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 12:08 PM Saumya Kushwaha <saumyakus at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Ibiam, It's helped a lot.
> I will surely follow the contributing guide file for making changes.
>
> Saumya Kushwaha
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 3:54 PM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <ibiam at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes you can clone the activity locally from that link then make any
>> changes you want and copy the directory to your vm,
>> after testing any issue you're working on and things are working as
>> expected then you can push to your fork of the activity and
>> open a PR from there.
>>
>> You should check out our contributing guide
>> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/contributing.md>
>> for making changes to an activity and Sugar.
>>
>> Hope that helps!
>>
>> --
>>
>> Ibiam Chihurumnaya
>> ibiam at sugarlabs.org
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 8:48 PM Saumya Kushwaha <saumyakus at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you Ibiam,
>>> Now I am able to copy and change the file via ssh with SCP.
>>>
>>> Could you confirm that, If I want to work on let's say "Calculate
>>> Activity" then I can clone it from here
>>> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/calculate-activity> then copy the VM
>>> "calculate Activity" in my local and now after comparing and easily
>>> checking them using any code editor, can work on any issue, and if things
>>> are working, then can raise the pr in the cloned repository of "Calculate
>>> Activity" i.e. here <https://github.com/sugarlabs/calculate-activity>.
>>>
>>> Thank again, Other pieces of information are also very helpful.
>>>
>>> Saumya Kushwaha
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 10:45 PM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <ibiam at sugarlabs.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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>>>>>
>>>>
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