Re: Help getting started with first contribution

[André <eu@euandre.org>]

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On 08/05/17 17:34, Catonano wrote:
> 2017-05-08 5:25 GMT+02:00 André <eu@euandre.org <mailto:eu@euandre.org>>:
>
>     Hi there, fellow Geeks!
>
>
>     I've been using Guix and GuixSD recently and I'd like to contribute!
>
>     I do know both Common Lisp and Clojure, so using Guile shouldn't
>     be a problem.
>
>
> It won't be. I also learned Clojure before Scheme
>  
>
>     I'd like to start with small tasks, like adding a few simple
>     packages, then move to bigger packages, then write some services,
>     and so on.
>
>
> Good plan. That's what I thought for me too.
>  
>
>     However, I'm not familiar  at all with mailing list workflows
>     (this is the first mailing list I actually subscribed to), so I
>     may need some guidance with that.
>
>
> Wow, you must be quite young !
>  
Not that much, actually. I've been programming for 3-4 years, but mostly
in a GitHub-centric world.
>
>
>     I thought about starting by creating a Guix package for
>     git-remote-gcrypt
>     (https://spwhitton.name/tech/code/git-remote-gcrypt/
>     <https://spwhitton.name/tech/code/git-remote-gcrypt/>). The
>     package definition should be fairly simple, since the main program
>     is just a shell script with no compilation dependencies.
>
>     I've read the section 8.5 "Submitting Patches" of the manual, so I
>     think I'm good to go.
>
>     Is there any specific example of a similar simple package that I
>     should base mine on? Is there anything else that I should be aware of?
>
>
> An immediate reccomendation is to use the guix-patches@gnu.org
> <mailto:guix-patches@gnu.org> mailing list
>
> That's the mailing list for patches
>
> guix-devel is ust for discussions
>
> You might want to use git send-mail instead o your usual email client.
> It's not required, but it helps you to make your submission more
> conformant to expected formats
Thanks for the tip.
>
> Especially if you want to submit a patches series and not a single
> patch, that can be very useful.
>  
> If your first package is a siingle patch, you can just attach the
> patch to an email message to the guix-patches mailing list.
>
> Pay attention to the ormat if the log message (take a look at other
> log messages in the git log, here iis a web version
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/ )
>
> Configuring git send-email and possibly GNUs is a whole topic and it
> probably beyond my strength right now
>
Thanks, I'll figure out how to configure it properly.
> When your message (with the attached patch) will be received, someone
> will review it and likely suggest modifications
>
> You will reply with a new version (as an attached patch as usual)
>
> When your patch will be ready, someone with committ permission will
> commit it for you
>
> When your patch will be committed, you will see it in the git log as
> authored by you and signed by the committer who committed it or you
>
> Hope this helps !
>
>
>     I'm looking forward to being part of this community.
>
>     Thanks in advance,
>     André.
>
>
> Welcome !
Thanks :)

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