Need help to start contributing for Subsurface

[Tomaz Canabrava]

Okay, Let's go.


In what part of subsurface do you want to help?
The best thing is to study the code a bit and find something you like.

Tomaz

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org>
wrote:
>
> And I just realized that you wrote tô Dirk personally, you need to reply
> tô all, and forget my last email...
> Em 15/12/2014 11:54, tcanabrava at kde.org escreveu:
>
> Nikhil,
>>
>> We had a tiny bit of issues with new developers that dont read what we
>> write and keep asking the same questions over and over again, ignoring what
>> we said.
>>
>> Dirk, the main developer, took the time to write you and instead of
>> answering you just repeated what you'v said in the previous email. Look,
>> this is no good. We care for newcomers, I was a newcomer before, but "how
>> do I start" is a very bad answer to the very Nice email that Dirk wrote.
>>
>> Take your time to re read the email again and answer correctly, politely
>> and tougthfully, because if you keep with that atitude you will not find
>> help here.
>>
>> Tomaz
>> Em 15/12/2014 11:48, "Nikhil Bharadwaj" <nikhil.gosala at gmail.com>
>> escreveu:
>> >
>> > 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Nikhil Bharadwaj
>> >
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