[Sugar-devel] Regarding contribution in Sugar Repository

[Saumya Kushwaha]

Okay Sure Ibiam, I will be careful about this next time.

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 5:00 AM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <ibiam at sugarlabs.org>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
>
> 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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