Need help to start contributing for Subsurface

Nikhil Bharadwaj nikhil.gosala at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 05:48:00 PST 2014


Hi,
I just finished compiling Subsurface on my computer.
Can someone help me out on how to start contributing.

Regards,
Nikhil Bharadwaj

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Nikhil Bharadwaj <nikhil.gosala at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Dear Dirk,
>
> I tried to do the above mentioned tasks. But when I am trying to compile
> Subsurface, I am getting an error saying that the command qmake does not
> exist.
>
> $ git clone git://subsurface-divelog.org/subsurface.git
> $ cd subsurface$ qmake # qmake-qt4
>
> Can you please tell me how to rectify the problem? I am presently using Fedora 21.
>
>
> Regards
> Nikhil Bharadwaj
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Nikhil Bharadwaj <
> nikhil.gosala at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dirk,
>>
>> No I am not a diver. I wanted to contribute to open-source and started
>> researching. It is then I came across Subsurface. I read through the
>> features and saw the requirements and liked it. So thats why I picked
>> Subsurface.
>>
>> Yes, Ill go through the videos and let you know.
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nikhil Bharadwaj
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Nikhil
>>>
>>> On Dec 14, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Nikhil Bharadwaj <nikhil.gosala at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> I'm Nikhil. I am very interested in contributing for Open Source
>>> Software and by doing some research I narrowed down to Subsurface. As I am
>>> new to this, I do not know how to start off.
>>>
>>>
>>> So why did you pick Subsurface? Are you a diver? Do you have experience
>>> with Qt? Something else?
>>>
>>> Just curious…
>>>
>>> Can someone please guide me through the whole process?
>>>
>>>
>>> If you have never used Subsurface, start with the tutorial video.
>>> http://subsurface-divelog.org/tutorial-video/
>>> Then look at building Subsurface (
>>> http://subsurface-divelog.org/documentation/building/ is a little
>>> outdated, we are literally days away from a new release and I’m in the
>>> process of updating this). And then you can start writing code:
>>> http://subsurface-divelog.org/documentation/contributing/ is a good
>>> place to start.
>>>
>>> So this is a very high level overview. I’m sure you have many more
>>> questions, but let’s see how far you get with this and then we can talk
>>> more :-)
>>>
>>> /D
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Nikhil Bharadwaj
>>
>
>
> --
> Nikhil Bharadwaj
>


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Nikhil Bharadwaj
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