<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone, <div><br></div><div>From the past few days, I am noticing issues popping up in Sugar Labs repository on Github about <b>asking permission to work on issues</b> as also mentioned by Walter here [1] I wanted to take the time present my thoughts over it. First up, submitting a pull request is not a race. This is not a competition and sometimes it seems like everything in this world is a competition but I realized that here in Open-Source, here in Sugar Labs that is not true. It's quite the opposite. </div><div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">We must realize that pull requests are an easy path to improve the codebase, contribute to the organization and much more. Not just more green dots on the profile page. We must think and act like contributors, not like .. contenders. From the last month, I have been working and contributing to Sugar Labs, I feel I have grown so much. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Quoting @quozl here</span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">What matters is the pull request. This new practice of asking for permission to work on something, perhaps in the hope of being the one who will win the task, goes against our<span> </span></span><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(3,102,214);text-decoration:none;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Sugar Labs culture</a><span style="color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">. If someone else solves the problem before you, in a way that is better than your solution, we'll take it gladly.</span></span></blockquote><div> </div><div>In all honesty, I asked for the permission to work on an issue myself. But one should learn from their mistakes and from other's mistakes. Hence I would request all participants to read [2] at least once before hitting the "Submit pull request" button the next time and work and collaborate.</div><div><br></div><div>Happy Contributing !!     </div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small">Cordially, </div><div style="font-size:small">Vipul Gupta </div><div style="font-size:small"><a href="https://mixstersite.wordpress.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Mixster</a> | <a href="https://github.com/vipulgupta2048" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Github</a></div></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style=""><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">[1] - <a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/pull/148">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/pull/148</a> </div>[2] - <a href="https://github.com/walterbender/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/contributing.md">https://github.com/walterbender/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/contributing.md</a></div><font size="1"><br></font></div><div style=""><font size="1">Ps.</font></div><div style=""><font size="1">- I apologize for the rant, but I think it was my duty to put forward my opinions and help the community grow in more constructive manner.</font><span style="font-size:x-small"> </span></div><div style=""><font size="1">- Last night, I received a message from someone requesting me to collaborate on an issue that I was working on. I was taken aback, hence from then, I thought about to write this mail and make people more aware.<br></font></div></div></div></div></div>
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