Need help to start contributing for Subsurface

Mon Dec 15 07:01:50 PST 2014

Okay Ill do that.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Nikhil Bharadwaj <
> nikhil.gosala at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Keep the Qt4 version for a while, it has everything that the Qt5 has.
> we are making it work on both versions. :)
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>> Regards,
>> Nikhil Bharadwaj
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>> 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:
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>>>> 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
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>>> 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]$
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>>>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> 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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