Need help to start contributing for Subsurface

[Nikhil Bharadwaj]

Tomaz,
Yes I did. I guess there was some problem with QT5. With QT4, it is
compiling well. It has also opened up just now.


Regards,
Nikhil Bharadwaj


On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:
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> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Nikhil Bharadwaj
>>
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Nikhil Bharadwaj
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