From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laura Lazzati Subject: Re: [outreachy] am I in the right track to contribute Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 22:24:53 -0300 Message-ID: References: <20181009181740.1f88bbf2@alma-ubu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38739) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAPjN-0003ex-Sa for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2018 21:25:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAPjM-0005ic-OM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2018 21:25:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Boskovits?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 3:12 PM G=C3=A1bor Boskovits = wrote: > > > Hello Laura, > > Laura Lazzati ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2= 018. okt. 10., Sze 18:41): >> >> On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 1:17 PM Bj=C3=B6rn H=C3=B6fling >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Laura, >> > >> > On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 10:08:44 -0300 >> > Laura Lazzati wrote: >> > >> > > Hi everyone! >> > > >> > > I don't know if is it OK to be telling you what I am/ I've been doin= g >> > > these days, I kind of like doing so to have feedback, and also to le= t >> > > you know >> > >> > This is exactly the way to go! It's good to hear where you stay, what >> > you tried, where you succeeded, where you got stuck. If you get stuck, >> > tell us about the paths you already tried out and why you don't get >> > further alone. >> > >> Sorry for being absent for a day. After updating and upgrading my >> computer, I am stuck trying to see why the sound stopped working. Yes, >> this kind of thinks happen but just now? > > > No worries, one day off is perfectly ok, however if you did not get an an= swer in 3 or 4 days, then please contact us, since in that case there is so= me communications mistake. > Last time losing sound happened to me after a dist-upgrade in ubuntu, and= turned out, that the pulseaudio package shipped with a configuration that = was not compatible with the version of the binaries supplied. I ran it in t= he foreground, and in the startup messages or in the log I found that it co= uld not parse the config. It can be something entirely different though. I = hope this helps. Thanks :) Unluckily i made a mistake and ended up needing a fresh install. But I am the kind of person that always has data backup and is aware of the software and utilities that needs. Tomorrow I will go on with my VMs, the one with only Guix, and one with GuixSD and start with the package stuff, so that I can contribute as much as I can, even if I am not chosen for outreachy. >> >> >> > One thing that was today on the Outreachy mentors-mailinglist: If you >> > finally made a contribution, please go directly on the Outreachy >> > project page, select the Guix project and formally record your >> > contributions. That's important to us and for the whole Outreachy >> > project to see who/how many applicants are possible candidates for a >> > project If I do the R packaging, where do I record in Guix? And I am keeping my daily journal with the problems I encounter, but I am not very sure about where to upload it for Guix. As regards my daily journal. is it OK to hace it in Google Drive? I know its FOSS, but it's a good way of easily updating the doc and having it accesible. And in outreachy it says that Refining current documentation is a contribution too. I don't know if this applies also to problems I encounter and how I managed to solve them. See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info. >> > >> > >> > > I installed guix on a VM with an Ubuntu distro and it worked fine - = i >> > > ran some basic commands. >> > > I am trying to install GuixSD over that VM too and on bare metal - >> > > don't know if this two steps are necessary, but looking at the tasks >> > > for Outreachy one items says that I will be doing documentation for >> > > it. >> > >> > Concerning bare metal: Guix uses 100% Free Software und thus uses the >> > libre kernel, not the normal vanilla kernel. That means some binaries >> > included in the vanilla kernel are stripped off. Hickups might occur, >> > especially with Network, WLAN and Graphics, compared to Ubuntu. >> > >> I thought that by installing bare metal ment installing it on a VM >> without any operating system. I mean, putting the ISO there. I only >> have one retro PC available with no OS where I could be trying that - >> it is like 13 years old, and it is not a laptop. > > > It is ok to skip that all together, a VM install is more than enough for = now. > >> > As always before installing a new OS, make backups of your data and >> > configurations on that machine! >> > >> > > 1) should I write, at least for myself, the problems I've been >> > > encountering in the whole process of doing everything? >> > >> > Yes, very good! I do that for myself too. It leads to good, reproducib= le >> > bug reports, bug fixes, documentation fixes, blog entries and could al= so >> > be used as a starting point for a screenplay for the videos. >> Love doing this kind of things. >> > >> > Bj=C3=B6rn > > Best regards, > g_bor