[Ubuntu-eg] An Open Source Contribution [Suggestion]

[Farouk Elabady]

Hello everyoneThat's a wonderful idea and i really hope we in Ubuntu-eg begin to contribute seriously in Ubuntu and Linux development in general, I see that the main problem in the Egyptian community is the lack of team work especially in software that depends heavily on team work to make something and i will join in, ISA, and try fix a lot of bugs and learn my way out in Ubuntu and then i hope we make a team that is good recognized in the Linux community

Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:47:03 +0700
From: ashams at ubuntu.com
To: ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-eg] An Open Source Contribution [Suggestion]



On 23 April 2012 20:19, Seif Lotfy <seif at lotfy.com> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:02 PM, mosab.ahmad at gmail.com <mosab.ahmad at gmail.com> wrote:


Hello all,

I suggest that we hold an event to share among ourselves how to contribute to open source practically, not just in theory.



Typical sessions should include but is not limited to : 


Version controlPulling/Pushing/MergingHow to deal with patches and diffsDifferent version control systems (cvs, svn, git, hg, bzr)peer review
Testing



How to properly identify and report a bugAutomated testingPackagingHow to package your software to a .deb package for ubuntu

I love your enthusiasm, really awesome and infectious.I had a long discussion with Ahmed about this. We came to a point where we noticed that we as a community we end up giving classes and sessions but we never apply it. We have done this in the past and we still want to do more. This approach is good but not efficient. We are trying to grow unorganically.

Let us start with ourselves. Each one of us here should try to fix a bug and report by the end of this month what he fixed, reported or translated. This way the community will know who is capable with what and thus  they can approach those figures with questions. This eventually could lead to a mentorship program.


What do you think?CheersSeif

As it's a self-learning approach, let's design patterns that a person can get inside and continue looping till s/he learn what they intended to. Such patterns can exactly like what Seif suggested, do something on daily basis(i.e. triage number of bugs, report number of bugs, test something, fix some code, etc) and report what you did monthly or even weekly or biweekly to here or the -dev ML. I think, it needs more like a task list, so ppl would know exactly what task to do and when.


Besides that, we still have the advantage of "Screencasts". We can skip giving the same courses/mentorship again and again by recording whatever we want to give in a screencast and ppl will continue viewing it forever. Questions can be answered on this mailing-list or on the -dev mailinglist(to avoid making noise).


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Regards,
Ahmed



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