Contributing to Open Source on GitHub • Hacker News Board

Re: Contributing to Open Source on GitHub

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Post by pyrohawk » Sat, Apr 05, 2014, 12:39 AM UTC

Open source tacos. I would love to debug those.

Re: Contributing to Open Source on GitHub

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Post by teacup50 » Sat, Apr 05, 2014, 12:44 AM UTC

shurcooL wrote: post #8

What should I do if the open source project I want to contribute to isn't on GitHub?

Copy the project's code into a GitHub repository that uses the project's name and start hacking on it there, and then release your own fork.

Oh, wait, that's exactly what you shouldn't do. :)

Re: Contributing to Open Source on GitHub

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Post by MarkTee » Sat, Apr 05, 2014, 12:51 AM UTC

eik3_de wrote: post #9

great. next up: a well-written & concise guide on writing proper commit messages. could be based on http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa... and http://robots.thoughtbot.com/5-useful-tips-for-a-better-comm...

Tim's post (the first link) is great; I've been meaning to start using git hooks to enforce the standards that he's set out in it.

A sample script can be found here:

http://addamhardy.com/blog/2013/06/05/good-commit-messages-a...

Re: Contributing to Open Source on GitHub

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Post by olalonde » Sat, Apr 05, 2014, 1:15 AM UTC

Tip: if you are not sure who the committers to a project are: https://api.github.com/repos/:user/:repo/collaborators. For example: https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin/collaborators

This can be useful when people are commenting on your pull request and you are not sure whether they have a final decision on the merge.

Re: Contributing to Open Source on GitHub

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Post by MaxGabriel » Sat, Apr 05, 2014, 2:14 AM UTC

olalonde wrote: post #14

Tip: if you are not sure who the committers to a project are: https://api.github.com/repos/:user/:repo/collaborators . For example: https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin/collaborators This can be useful when people are commenting on your pull request and you are not sure whether they have a final decision on the merge.

I think that Github now labels them as "collaborators" in the UI.

In this PR for example, wearhere is labelled as a collaborator in the corner of his comment. https://github.com/inkling/Subliminal/pull/170

Re: Contributing to Open Source on GitHub

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Post by prezjordan » Sat, Apr 05, 2014, 2:23 AM UTC

akerl_ wrote: post #4

lawl wrote: post #3

I think it's interesting how GitHub is trying to push open source contribution. However, we shouldn't rely too much on GitHub for (open source) collaboration. Git is decentral after all. Open source should remain too.

Properly used, GitHub doesn't stop git from being decentralized.

The whole "Wiki" feature comes to mind. Can I leave and take my project's wiki with me?

Re: Contributing to Open Source on GitHub

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Post by vertex-four » Sat, Apr 05, 2014, 2:28 AM UTC

prezjordan wrote: post #16

akerl_ wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Properly used, GitHub doesn't stop git from being decentralized.

The whole "Wiki" feature comes to mind. Can I leave and take my project's wiki with me?

Sure, just add .wiki in before .git in the git URL:

> git clone git@github.com:wicketstuff/core.wiki.git

Re: Contributing to Open Source on GitHub

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Post by olalonde » Sat, Apr 05, 2014, 2:28 AM UTC

MaxGabriel wrote: post #15

olalonde wrote: post #14

Tip: if you are not sure who the committers to a project are: https://api.github.com/repos/:user/:repo/collaborators . For example: https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin/collaborators This can be useful when people are commenting on your pull request and you are not sure whether they have a final decision on the merge.

I think that Github now labels them as "collaborators" in the UI. In this PR for example, wearhere is labelled as a collaborator in the corner of his comment. https://github.com/inkling/Subliminal/pull/170

Oh, I didn't notice. I suppose having the full list of collaborators could still be useful in some cases.

Re: Contributing to Open Source on GitHub

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Post by daturkel » Sat, Apr 05, 2014, 2:52 AM UTC

vertex-four wrote: post #17

prezjordan wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole "Wiki" feature comes to mind. Can I leave and take my project's wiki with me?

Sure, just add .wiki in before .git in the git URL: > git clone git@github.com:wicketstuff/core.wiki.git More of a problem would be your issues.

While not the person who asked, this is news to me. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Contributing to Open Source on GitHub

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Post by malandrew » Sat, Apr 05, 2014, 2:54 AM UTC

olalonde wrote: post #14

Tip: if you are not sure who the committers to a project are: https://api.github.com/repos/:user/:repo/collaborators . For example: https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin/collaborators This can be useful when people are commenting on your pull request and you are not sure whether they have a final decision on the merge.

Another great tool with respect to knowing more about collaborators is git-summary in TJ Holowaychuk's git-extras

https://github.com/visionmedia/git-extras#git-summary