From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?QmrDtnJuIEjDtmZsaW5n?= Subject: Re: contributing to Guix and learning Guix Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 07:27:23 +0200 Message-ID: <20180815072723.1f611902@alma-ubu> References: <37e0e7c23f526aa4c3b895f37bd5e19c@riseup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/_ptXzG8r85Zrg5a6BaqgRbt"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40905) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpoLG-0005HS-Kh for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 01:27:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpoLB-0001Np-Fp for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 01:27:34 -0400 Received: from m4s11.vlinux.de ([83.151.27.109]:43416 helo=bjoernhoefling.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpoLB-0001La-30 for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 01:27:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <37e0e7c23f526aa4c3b895f37bd5e19c@riseup.net> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Quiliro Ordonez Cc: help-guix@gnu.org --Sig_/_ptXzG8r85Zrg5a6BaqgRbt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 10:40:43 -0700 Quiliro Ordonez wrote: > Hello and congratulations for this great project from the ethical and > from the functional aspects of this work :-). >=20 > I am interested in learning Guix in order to help myself install Guix, > repair problems and to add packages which I need into the repository. > Sometimes learning has been slow for me because I have not been able > to find the information or the information that I have found has been > too difficult to understand for my level of knowledge. >=20 > The project needs contribution on: project management, art, > documentation, packaging, programming, system administration, > testing/reporting, translation as per > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/contribute/ . Users need help with > installation, reporting/repairing errors, packaging. >=20 > I think it would be very useful for Guix users and for the Guix > project to feed the help users can provide the project with the help > that other users and the docs can give them. Is there a web page > which will guide users in the process of solving their issues and by > the way contributing to Guix? If there is not and is considered > useful, I could contribute on this or on whatever could be suggested. >=20 > =C4=9Cis revido, > Quiliro Hi Quiliro, I don't exactly understand what you want to say. Hope this answers a bit:=20 I think the best way to learn how to contribute to Guix is via packaging one of your favourite packages. Depending on once choice, this can be a quite easy task with just hitting the importer or unfortunately can be quite tedious and frustrating, if the package does not compile, needs patches, has dependencies not yet in Guix, etc. The mailing lists and IRC channel is always open for concrete questions. In the documentation there is a section about contributing, especially submitting patches: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/guix.html#Submitting-Patches There are also two debbugs ("Debian bugs", that's the name of the software) bug trackers for open issues. Here people can find open issues, ranging from hard Guix internals to easy package reviews: One for bugs: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=3Dguix And the other one for patches waiting for reviews: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=3Dguix-patches Bj=C3=B6rn --Sig_/_ptXzG8r85Zrg5a6BaqgRbt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAltzubwACgkQvyhstlk+X/1XtwCcCaVFG1/gsdozLp49v7cGVnmE XggAoK7rKoO6PlUcWhjGzhheZEZ+at84 =Y5B3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/_ptXzG8r85Zrg5a6BaqgRbt--