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| 03:17 | welcomebot | Welcome shpurk1! The channel is pretty quiet right now, so I thought I'd say hello, and ping some people (like shauna, paulproteus, and marktraceur) that you're here. If no one responds for a while, try emailing us at hello openhatch.org or just try coming back later. FYI, you're now on my list of known nicknames, so I won't bother you again. |
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| 04:22 | welcomebot | Welcome wjwelchusa! The channel is pretty quiet right now, so I thought I'd say hello, and ping some people (like shauna, paulproteus, and marktraceur) that you're here. If no one responds for a while, try emailing us at helloopenhatch.org or just try coming back later. FYI, you're now on my list of known nicknames, so I won't bother you again. |
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| 08:40 | welcomebot | Welcome mhoye! The channel is pretty quiet right now, so I thought I'd say hello, and ping some people (like shauna, paulproteus, and marktraceur) that you're here. If no one responds for a while, try emailing us at helloopenhatch.org or just try coming back later. FYI, you're now on my list of known nicknames, so I won't bother you again. |
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| 14:23 | welcomebot | Welcome moijes12! The channel is pretty quiet right now, so I thought I'd say hello, and ping some people (like shauna, paulproteus, and marktraceur) that you're here. If no one responds for a while, try emailing us at helloopenhatch.org or just try coming back later. FYI, you're now on my list of known nicknames, so I won't bother you again. |
| 14:23 | moijes12 | welcomebot: hi |
| 14:23 | hi everyone | |
| 14:23 | fhacdroid | moijes12, hi |
| 14:24 | moijes12, wassup? | |
| 14:32 | pdurbin | moijes12: hi |
| 14:32 | moijes12 | fhacdroid: Hi. |
| 14:33 | pdurbin: hi. | |
| 14:35 | pdurbin: Whats new ? | |
| 14:36 | fhacdroid | i want to write a compiler of my own , how should I proceed? |
| 14:36 | pdurbin, ? | |
| 14:37 | moijes12 | fhacdroid: Are you doing it as part of a classroom project ? |
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| 14:37 | fhacdroid | nope |
| 14:37 | moijes12, i just want to do it for fun | |
| 14:38 | we are learning lex and yacc though | |
| 14:40 | moijes12 | fhacdroid: I'm not sure. Sorry :( |
| 14:45 | fhacdroid | any idea? |
| 14:51 | pdurbin | fhacdroid: what are you going to compile? C? your own language? |
| 15:07 | fhacdroid | pdurbin, i want to write my language too |
| 15:07 | but for now a simple compiler to learn | |
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| 16:54 | moijes12 | paulproteus: hi |
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| 17:26 | S3tanta | Hello |
| 17:27 | welcomebot | Welcome S3tanta! The channel is pretty quiet right now, so I thought I'd say hello, and ping some people (like shauna, paulproteus, and marktraceur) that you're here. If no one responds for a while, try emailing us at helloopenhatch.org or just try coming back later. FYI, you're now on my list of known nicknames, so I won't bother you again. |
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| 17:37 | beluga_ | S3tanta: hey |
| 17:39 | S3tanta | Do you think you could tell me if it's a good idea to try and start contributing to open source projects if I'm at a fairly basic level of programming (can work with linked lists & binary trees, etc but almost no real projects yet) |
| 17:39 | beluga_ | somewhat openhatchy (Lydia has worked with OH before): http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/[…]-recommendations/ |
| 17:39 | S3tanta: you might get into the quality assurance team of some project | |
| 17:40 | that way you will work near to the code, but don't have to dive in immediately :) | |
| 17:40 | S3tanta | I'd like that, however there are so many projects it's hard to know which to apply for and how |
| 17:40 | Pitivi looks interesting however, I may try to get into that | |
| 17:40 | beluga_ | you will get an overview of the state of the project, where does legacy code live, where is modern stuff etc. |
| 17:40 | and you get to know the people | |
| 17:41 | pdurbin | often you don't have to apply. you offer to help |
| 17:41 | S3tanta | thanks |
| 17:41 | beluga_ | yeah, with QA you can waltz right in and start testing stuff and replying to bug reports |
| 17:42 | people will be like "yeah, yeah welcome" and don't think twice about asking who you are :) | |
| 17:42 | S3tanta | that's cool, I'll try that |
| 17:43 | beluga_ | with Pitivi you would get the big Gnome community to back everything you do |
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| 17:46 | pdurbin | around 24 minutes in these guys argue that a good way to get into open source is to document methods: http://bikeshed.fm/24 |
| 17:49 | S3tanta | Do they usually have a doccumentation guide or do I just explain how the functions work and try to do it tidily? |
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| 17:50 | pdurbin | it depends, probably |
| 17:51 | beluga_ | S3tanta: with big projects there is usually a documentation team and they can help you get started |
| 17:52 | S3tanta: http://wiki.pitivi.org/wiki/Bug_reporting <- that looks like a good window to bug testing | |
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| 17:55 | willingc | pdurbin: howdy. I've just come out of my multi-week IRC exile ;) |
| 17:55 | S3tanta | Thanks, I'll try and see if I can find a bug I can work on |
| 17:55 | pdurbin | willingc: welcome back. I've been enjoying the engineer retweets. |
| 17:56 | willingc | pdurbin: They are wonderful :) |
| 17:56 | beluga_ | S3tanta: yeah, I guess they appreciate, if you try to confirm some of the unconfirmed ones: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/bug[…]ED&product=pitivi |
| 17:57 | S3tanta | ok, that sounds doable, thanks beluga_ |
| 17:57 | beluga_ | then just make it a habit to hang around on their IRC channel and make friends :) |
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| 18:43 | beluga_ | Nightrose: hi! I just recommended your newest blog post here an hour ago :) |
| 18:43 | Nightrose | beluga_: :D thanks! |
| 18:44 | beluga_ | Nightrose: I've been going full-on with recruitment bizniz in the context of LibreOffice QA |
| 18:45 | Nightrose | how's it going? |
| 18:46 | beluga_ | over the past couple of months I've contacted over 70 bug reporters via email and posted topics to a couple of forums (Sourceforge, reddit, LibreOffice unofficial forums) .. people do get back to me and even start working :) |
| 18:47 | we might add some automatic mechanism that displays a message in the Bugzilla footer inviting the user to join the QA team after they have filed their first bug | |
| 18:47 | Nightrose | sweet |
| 18:47 | beluga_ | an option to that is sending an email.. more invasive, yes.. but not necessarily that bad |
| 18:47 | Nightrose | *nod* |
| 18:48 | beluga_ | I always promise to mentor |
| 18:48 | I'm eager to see what happens, if we grow the team to really unprecedented proportions :) | |
| 18:50 | I hope we could some day cooperate with the QA teams of other projects | |
| 18:50 | have some kind of "Global QA day" | |
| 18:51 | it's such a sweet spot to get new contributors.. very easy to jump in and then explore other teams, dev, design or whatever | |
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| 18:55 | beluga_ | Nightrose: here is a link to a thread where I explain in my own words how we do (manual) work in QA: https://sourceforge.net/p/forg[…]/thread/dae9bfa9/ |
| 18:55 | Nightrose | thanks! |
| 18:56 | beluga_ | some short notes about recruiting I have collected in my wiki user page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Beluga I haven't created a wiki page yet as I need more experience and data |
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| 18:59 | beluga_ | we even have our own whiteboard code for bugs that need KDE :) https://bugs.documentfoundatio[…]pe=allwordssubstr |
| 19:02 | Nightrose | :D |
| 19:03 | beluga_ | I am proud to say I have confirmed several of those ;) |
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| 20:06 | pdurbin | fhacdroid: for creating languages and compilers I recommend talking to prologic in #sourcefu |
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