From: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git in Outreachy December 2019?
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2019 20:26:10 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190908145610.3ho2wo5qqiw3u4lz@yadavpratyush.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190904194114.GA31398@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Hi Jeff,
On 04/09/19 03:41PM, Jeff King wrote:
[snip]
> The project page has a section to point people in the right direction
> for first-time contributions. I've left it blank for now, but I think it
> makes sense to point one (or both) of:
>
> - https://git-scm.com/docs/MyFirstContribution
>
> - https://matheustavares.gitlab.io/posts/first-steps-contributing-to-git
>
> as well as a list of micro-projects (or at least instructions on how to
> find #leftoverbits, though we'd definitely have to step up our labeling,
> as I do not recall having seen one for a while).
I'd like to put out a proposal regarding first contributions and micro
projects.
I have a small list of small isolated features and bug fixes that
_I think_ git-gui would benefit with. And other people using it can
probably add their pet peeves and issues as well. My question is, are
these something new contributors should try to work on as an
introduction to the community? Since most of these features and fixes
are small and isolated, they should be pretty easy to work on. And I
think people generally find UI apps a little easier to work on.
But I'll play the devil's advocate on my proposal and point out some
problems/flaws:
- Git-gui is written in Tcl, and git in C (and other languages too, but
not Tcl). That means while people do get a feel of the community and
general workflow, they don't necessarily get a feel of the actual git
internal codebase.
- Since I don't see a git-gui related project worth being into the
Outreachy program, it essentially means they will likely not work on
anything related to their project.
- Git-gui is essentially a wrapper on top of git, so people won't get
exposure to the git internals.
I'd like to hear your and the rest of the community's thoughts about
this proposal, and whether it will be a good idea or not.
If people do like this idea, I can do a write up on "things to fix in
git-gui" that people can add to (and they get a chance to call me stupid
for even thinking feature X is a good idea ;)).
--
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-08 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-27 5:17 Git in Outreachy December 2019? Jeff King
2019-08-31 7:58 ` Christian Couder
2019-08-31 19:44 ` Olga Telezhnaya
2019-09-04 19:41 ` Jeff King
2019-09-05 7:24 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-05 19:39 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-06 11:55 ` Carlo Arenas
2019-09-07 6:39 ` Jeff King
2019-09-07 10:13 ` Carlo Arenas
2019-09-07 6:36 ` Jeff King
2019-09-08 14:56 ` Pratyush Yadav [this message]
2019-09-09 17:00 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 18:07 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 9:47 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 19:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-26 21:54 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 11:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-13 20:03 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-13 20:51 ` Jeff King
2019-09-16 18:42 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-16 21:33 ` Eric Wong
2019-09-16 21:44 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-16 23:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-09-17 0:59 ` Jeff King
2019-09-17 11:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-17 12:02 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-23 12:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-23 16:58 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 11:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-26 13:28 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 19:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-26 21:44 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-27 22:18 ` Jeff King
2019-10-09 17:25 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-10-11 6:34 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 18:19 ` Jeff King
2019-09-24 14:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-17 15:10 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-23 12:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-23 19:30 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 18:07 ` Jeff King
2019-09-24 14:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-24 15:33 ` Jeff King
2019-09-28 3:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-24 0:55 ` Eric Wong
2019-09-26 12:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-30 8:55 ` Eric Wong
2019-09-28 4:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-20 17:04 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-21 1:47 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-23 14:23 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-23 19:40 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 22:29 ` Philip Oakley
2019-10-22 21:16 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-23 11:49 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-23 17:58 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-23 19:27 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 20:48 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-23 19:15 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 20:38 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-23 21:28 ` Jeff King
2019-09-24 17:07 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-26 7:09 ` Jeff King
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