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Re: First Timers Only

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Post by diggan »

hartator wrote: post #27
neogodless wrote: post #26

As a true open-source zero timer, I can't quite figure out what PR means. My gut was "pull request" but it sounds like you're "committing a fix" at this point, so I suppose "push request" might be the answer, but it's an ambiguous pair of letters.

It's pull request, that's git terminoly to merge external code to an existing project.

I don't want to nitpick but for a Git beginner (not necessarily you but others reading here), it's important to know that "pull request" is really a Github concept, not a Git one.

Re: First Timers Only

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Post by chunky1994 »

ywecur wrote: post #36
anonymoushn wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's tied up with how git works, which is a huge mess. You really do "commit a fix" but you commit it to your own git repository, then you make a "pull request" to the owner of the main repository, asking them to pull in your fix.

It has nothing to do with Git, it's just the name Github uses. GitLab calles it a "Merge request", which is more fitting IMO.

That's actually not true. git-pull (which is where the pull request comes from) is in the git manpages. Specifically it is: Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local branch. Which is basically a git fetch and merge from the submitters repository to the repository they are submitting to.

EDIT: Admittedly if you are talking specifically of the request part, then you are correct. However the name comes directly from git's pull command which is a feature of git.

Re: First Timers Only

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Post by realityking »

diggan wrote: post #41
hartator wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's pull request, that's git terminoly to merge external code to an existing project.

I don't want to nitpick but for a Git beginner (not necessarily you but others reading here), it's important to know that "pull request" is really a Github concept, not a Git one.

Pull request is very much git terminology. Here's the documentation for 'git request-pull': https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull

Re: First Timers Only

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Post by thewhitetulip »

This is a really nice initiative, when I was starting with open source development I had no idea how to do what we needed to do and almost no project i talked to had any initiative like this where they keep some part of their project open for first timers like me, i had to struggle a lot to get started, it'd be great if more and more influential projects started to use this and if they were a little more open to feedback, of late I have noticed those who manage the project just don't listen to feedback what so ever.

Re: First Timers Only

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Post by lastontheboat »

benten10 wrote: post #24
pella wrote: post #8

similar : Mozilla "Mentor Bugs If you are looking for a bug with guidance, we maintain a set of bugs that are marked with an assigned mentor (see "Whiteboard" field). The mentor will help you get the necessary information to understand the issue, point out relevant parts of the code to look at, etc. You can browse these bugs on Bugs Ahoy!, but here's a list of unassigned mentor bugs to get you started:" https://wiki.…

Thanks for the links! I am getting desperate to contribute (too much post-work free time, don't ask). I have been spamming my favorite python libraries on github with feature requests (so I can pick them up myself later ; ) ), but it's _really_ hard for a n00b contributor to get grounded and started. I'll hijack this thread: would you have Python projects for first-time contributors? Can we turn downthread from here…

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webdev/GetInvolved is Django-based, while https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/Contribute and https://wiki.mozilla.org/EngineeringProductivity are largely Python-based.

Re: First Timers Only

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

Great read. My favorite part is this bullet point:

> Use npm scripts so people don’t have to understand or globally install any build tools

I do this on every project I work on. In fact, where possible, I completely skip globals entirely (for instance in my msngr.js library it uses Grunt but it executes grunt locally without it being installed globally on the machine).

I think it's really important that anyone can go up to a library, pull it down, and start it with little to no further effort. The less friction you can provide a developer the better.

Re: First Timers Only

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Post by eitland »

Jenkins has been filling my twitter feed with information for new contributors lately under the hashtag #hacksgiving I think.

Edit: Changed "spamming" to "filling" That was meant as a positive thing but I guess I shouldn't have used the word spamming.

Re: First Timers Only

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Post by [deleted] »

eitland wrote: post #48

Jenkins has been filling my twitter feed with information for new contributors lately under the hashtag #hacksgiving I think. Edit: Changed "spamming" to "filling" That was meant as a positive thing but I guess I shouldn't have used the word spamming.

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Re: First Timers Only

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Post by ultrafez »

realityking wrote: post #44
diggan wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't want to nitpick but for a Git beginner (not necessarily you but others reading here), it's important to know that "pull request" is really a Github concept, not a Git one.

Pull request is very much git terminology. Here's the documentation for 'git request-pull': https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull

If you're being picky, then I can be picky too: the concept of a "pull request" isn't defined in that manpage, only the command "request-pull" is. A "pull request" is an entity in itself.

The command may exist within git, but it's not a part of most people's git workflows. "Pull Request" is a term that's far more commonly attributed-to and associated with tools like GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket etc.

Did you know that git has the ability to send patches via email, built in [1]? Git has a lot of functions that the majority of people don't use.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email

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