Need help to start contributing for Subsurface

[Tomaz Canabrava]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Nikhil Bharadwaj <nikhil.gosala at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Tomaz,
>
> This is the problem I am presently facing.
>
> [nikhil at Nikhil-Fedora ~]$ cd subsurface
> [nikhil at Nikhil-Fedora subsurface]$ qmake-qt5
> sh: g++: command not found
>

sh: g++: command not found

Did you installed the compilers?


> Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: webkit webkitwidgets svg
> [nikhil at Nikhil-Fedora subsurface]$
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Nikhil Bharadwaj <
>> nikhil.gosala at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Tomaz,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your quick reply.
>>> But presently I am facing a small problem. I do not know what happened
>>> but the Subsurface application is not opening. It is saying that webkits
>>> webkitwidgets are missing.
>>>
>>> Ill try to sort out the problem and once it is done, Ill go through the
>>> code and let you know once I am done.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Regards
>>> Nikhil Bharadwaj
>>>
>>
>>
>> pass me the whole compile output and the result that happens when you
>> open it.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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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>>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nikhil Bharadwaj
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>
> --
> Nikhil Bharadwaj
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