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Re: [Gimp-web] Getting involved with the "Get Involved" web page

Okay, I'm glad we got it through.

I'll send another patch *about* using Bugzilla to the Bugzilla :P

~Andrew


On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 14:46 +0000, Pat David wrote:

Ok, finally got the patch uncorrupted and merged/applied.  (The
changes should be live shortly, if they aren't already).

I also should be reprimanded for not pointing out earlier that we can
should also probably take patches through bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gimp-web

where you can actually attach the patch.

Thank you very much for being patient and re-sending.  Helping to
ease the process of contributions is definitely something we'll look
at soon, but for now if you want to submit any other patches, please
attach them in bugzilla.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:27 PM Andrew Toskin <andrew tosk in>
wrote:

I installed the git send-email module (listed as `git-email` on
Fedora), but I don't understand it. I can't get it to send anything
in
my tests. I'm probably not the first person to complain about this,
but
GitHub/GitLab-style pull requests really seem like the better way
to do
this sort of thing...

Whatever. Try downloading the patch from my website. <
https://andrew.to
sk.in/patches/2015-10-22--explain-how-to-contribute-to-the-gimp
-projects.patch>

~Andrew


On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 20:49 -0700, Andrew Toskin wrote:

On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 19:12 +0000, Pat David wrote:

Andrew,

I think the email mangled your patch data - was it a webmail

client

that did this, or did you use the sendmail/git feature?

I'm trying to apply your patch and getting errors about a

corrupt

patch file.

The first time I sent it with Evolution, the default email client

in

GNOME. Then I did it from my webmail, RoundCube.

Will it only work with git send-email? I see it documented at git
-scm.com, but it's not an available git command (on my system,
running git 2.4.3 on Fedora 22).

~Andrew



On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 3:18 PM Andrew Toskin <andrew tosk in>
wrote:


On 2015-10-23 06:35, Pat David wrote:


It seems that the list may have stripped out your

attachment?


Huh. I'll try attaching it again, but just in case, here's

the

patch
file pasted below.

From 580337e443bcca55b1e70bae72fcebcf9cdc50e6 Mon Sep 17

00:00:00

2001
From: Andrew Toskin <andrew tosk in>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:59:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Explain *how* to contribute to the GIMP
projects.

The "Development Status", "Bug Reports" and "Web Development"
headings
seemed to
me like they were really subsections of "How You Can Help,"

so I

set
those to be
h3 headings.

A couple times, in the "Hacking" and "How To Submit Your

Changes"

sections, I
tried to borrow the tone of Wikipedia's "Be Bold" guidelines.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold>

I added a list of links to the most important GIMP

repositories.

I was
going to
mention gimp-web-devel in this list, but it looks like no one

has

pushed
any
commits there since 2013. Perhaps that repo should be

archived?

---
 content/develop/index.md | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/content/develop/index.md

b/content/develop/index.md

index 0c9df4a..1502c76 100644
--- a/content/develop/index.md
+++ b/content/develop/index.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Ways in which you can help:

 As you can see, anyone can help.

-## Development Status
+### Development Status

 The team is currently busy working on v2.10. This will be

the

first
release of GIMP featuring a new, advanced image processing
engine, high
bit depth editing, as well as new and improved transformation

and

selection tools.

@@ -39,19 +39,34 @@ Porting internals of GIMP to GEGL is

mostly

done,
but more plugins have to be po

 To get a better understanding of where the project is

heading

to, which
features are planned etc., please visit the
[Roadmap](http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Roadmap) page.

-## Bug Reports
+### Bug Reports

 GIMP is not a bug-free application nor is any other

application

so
reporting the bugs that you will encounter is very important

to

the
development, it helps the developers to make GIMP more stable

and

more
bug free.

 You don't have to be a developer or a everyday user to

report

bugs. It
can be hard to report a bug the first time you try it out but
don't just
quit the whole bug report if you think it is hard. Instead,

look

at the
[bugs](/bugs/) page you will find some very good help about

this.


-## Web Development
+### Web Development

 Creating websites that contain useful information is very
important. It
is actually just as important as doing bug reports. A website
contains a
lot of information that is needed for the development to move

on

and it
also contains information that will help the public to

understand

what
the application is all about.

 ## Hacking

-This is the part where people are always needed to help with

the

development, and this is also the part that is the hardest to
start
with. Though there are websites and files to give you a good

look

at how
hacking is being done in GIMP.
+GIMP uses [git](https://git-scm.com/) as its revision

control

system,
and the [GNOME Foundation](https://www.gnome.org/) hosts all

of

our code
repositories:
+
+* [`gimp`](https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/) - the GIMP
application
itself
+* [`gimp-web`](https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp-web/) -

repo

for this
website
+* [`gimp-web-devel`](
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp-web-devel/) -
repo for the developer site at <http://developer.gnome.org>
+* [`gimp-help-2`](https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp-help-2/)

-

the GIMP
user manual
+* [plus several others](https://git.gnome.org/browse/?q=gimp

)

+
+New contributors should first introduce themselves on IRC

(the

#gimp
channel at irc.gimp.org) and/or the relevant mailing lists:
+
+* [GIMP Developers mailing list, for those who work on the

core

GIMP
application and
plugins](
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-lists)
+* [GEGL Developers mailing list for developers of the GEGL
library](
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gegl-developer-list)
+* [GIMP Web Developers mailing list, for working on this
website](

https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-web-list)

+* [GIMP Documentation mailing list, for working on the user
manual](

https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs-list)

+
+This way you can announce the changes you intend to make,

ask

questions, and discuss which changes would be best. It's
generally
better to focus on one thing at a time. Contributing to a
software
project for the first time is always the hardest part, which

is

why
we're here to help each other. There are also websites to

give

you a
good look at how hacking is being done in GIMP.

 The site you should keep updated with and the site that is
updated all
the time with new development help guides is located at
[http://wiki.gimp.org/](http://wiki.gimp.org/). If you have

GIMP

installed at the moment then there are some files you should

look

at in
the source code that might help you a little.

@@ -64,6 +79,12 @@ The site you should keep updated with and

the

site
that is updated all the time
 * [README.i18n](
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/plain/README.i18n)
 _(The internationalization README which should be read by
translators)_


+Once you've figured out what to do, though, be bold and get

to

work!
+
+## How To Submit Your Changes
+
+When you're ready, make your edits, and [generate a patch
file](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch). Send the

patch

file,
along with a summary of what you did, to the mailing list for
feedback.
The GIMP community is a friendly one, but it probably is

still

worth
saying this: Try not to take critiques personally. We all

just

want GIMP
to be the best that it can be. Once approved, your edits will

be

merged
into the code base, making you an official GIMP contributor.

And

if you
keep up the good work, not only will this process get easier

with

practice, your administrative privileges in GIMP development

will

also
increase too.
+
 ## Important GIMP Links

 * [The GNU Image Manipulation Program](http://www.gimp.org/)

-

www.gimp.org
@@ -94,4 +115,3 @@ The site you should keep updated with and

the

site
that is updated all the time
 ## Latest Changes in Code

 The [Unstable GIMP](https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/log/)

page

lists
the lastest source code commits to the unstable branch of

GIMP.

-
--
2.4.3


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