Re: [gnome-love] Getting Involved - Looking for volunteers

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:21:19PM -0500, Kevin Vandersloot wrote:
> Hi Phil and everyone else who wants to do something easy for GNOME!
>
> So I have an easy task for anyone to do. Right now gweather for GNOME2 doesn't
> do well trying to get radar maps for US cities. The url that the radar maps is
> downloaded from is 
>
> http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_%s_closeradar_medium_usen.jpg
>
> where %s is a three letter designation of the city. For Pittsburgh it is pit.
>
> To determine what code should be used for what city go to weather.com and enter in a city. If you right 
> clikc on the radar map it will display the image name
> (at least it does with Galeon) which will contain the city code.
>
> Now do a cvs co of gnome-applets ("cvs co gnome-applets"). Put this city code as the last argument in the 
> Locations file. Now make a patch for your changes by
> issuing the following comand:
>
> cvs diff -u5 ./ > mystate.patch
>
> What I would like is for courageuos volunteers to do this for all the cities in their favorite state that 
> gweather supports. I've opened a bug report so
> volunteers can attach their patches to the bug report:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76857
>
> So I would be greatly appreciative for anything contributed. This would greatly improve the gweather applet 
> for GNOME2 :)

Coolest! What a great way to jump in and make a quick and easy
contribution (and to my favorite applet, I might add).

Cheers,

John "the weather junkie" Fleck