Need help to start contributing for Subsurface

[Tomaz Canabrava]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Nikhil Bharadwaj <nikhil.gosala at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Keep the Qt4 version for a while, it has everything that the Qt5 has.
we are making it work on both versions. :)


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