Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Nikos Vasilakis nikos.a...@gmail.com wrote: I believe you wanted to reply to all (which I do). I agree. In general, I believe that our contribution guidelines are broken. For coders in particular, heading to the developer section of the website has a light introduction to vala, but says nothing on how to actually contribute to elementary (i.e., what is current target/milestone, how to pick goals to tackle, how to assign blueprint/bug to you or notify developers that you started working on something etc.). So a question is, do we have such a text somewhere internally (which we need only to polish and get online) or do we have to write it from scratch? Well, to answer my own question, I believe the page I was looking for was get ./get-involved, which has many of the things I was talking about. But it still lacks guidelines. How would you go about contributing? Should you first engage in the blueprint discussion? Or when the blueprint is settled you can assign it to you? Or do you need to create a bug with the same name as the blueprint and start working on that? (I believe it is the last one) How do you pick lower hanging fruits? If you spend some time on the project, you soon have answers to most of these. But shouldn't we make these readily available to potential contributors? Nikos On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Pepijn de Vos pepijnde...@gmail.com wrote: At Mozilla they have a system where bugs are tagged as easy and/or having a mentor available. This is maybe another way of attracting contributors. I'd be happy to fix some low hanging fruit knowing there is someone to assist me if I get stuck. Pepijn On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Nikos Vasilakis nikos.a...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, David. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:19 AM, David Gomes da...@elementaryos.org wrote: We decided not to apply given that we need to give higher focus to stabilizing our current projects and not just writing a bunch of new ones. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Nikos Vasilakis nikos.a...@gmail.com wrote: Did we apply, eventually? On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Daniel Foré dan...@elementaryos.org wrote: To be clear, what I'm saying is maybe we shouldn't be trying to make up stuff to do just to participate in Gsoc when we already have quite a lot to do even though it doesn't fit into Gsoc Cheers, Daniel Foré elementaryos.orgOn Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Daniel Foré dan...@elementaryos.org wrote: This thread is starting to look and sound like just a massive distraction. We already have quite a lot of very important things to do. I think one of the most important of which is get AppCenter to a shippable state. New things are cool and fun and exciting, but if we really have the extra time and resources I think we should be focusing on making sure what we already have is the best it can be. * There is still no search in Files * We just picked up Photos which needs a lot of work to bring its UI into alignment with our other apps * judging by the popularity of indicator synapse, we should probably investigate using libsynapse to improve the results in Slingshot * We need to fix deprecation warnings involving granite and gtk * Pantheon Online Accounts needs to be integrated into our default apps * Indicators are holding us back from Pantheon running on other platforms and frankly their designs aren't the best they could be. * Audience could use its UI re-written in GTK (instead of raw Cairo) now that we have things like overlay and revealer and can use custom CSS I mean there are literally a couple thousand bug reports open right now. Cheers, Daniel Foré elementaryos.orgOn Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Pepijn de Vos pepijnde...@gmail.com wrote: This tread is just the best way of finding software I need :) Would be cool if they where more easily discoverable though. This was a good start: http://www.elementaryupdate.com/2013/08/top-things-to-do-after-installing-luna.html Elementary's new motto: There's a PPA for that! But... what's wrong with just using Dropbox or UbuntuOne? I am aware that Preview does SOME things, but I never looked closely. So much Mac stealing going on here :D OS X is good, but not everything that's good is OS X. Pepijn On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Nikos Vasilakis nikos.a...@gmail.com wrote: Also, we have something similar, I believe: https://github.com/kjlaw89/draw On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Tristan Petersen trista...@me.com wrote: Pepijn, Are you familiar with the annotations feature of Mac OS X Preview app? It does essentially what you describe. I use it all the time to quickly annotate screenshots or pdfs. Regards, Tristan On Feb 14, 2014, at 3:41, Pepijn de Vos pepijnde...@gmail.com wrote: Another random idea, that is not a ripoff of OS X is... MS Paint! Something to annotate screenshots or draw a
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas
I believe you wanted to reply to all (which I do). I agree. In general, I believe that our contribution guidelines are broken. For coders in particular, heading to the developer section of the website has a light introduction to vala, but says nothing on how to actually contribute to elementary (i.e., what is current target/milestone, how to pick goals to tackle, how to assign blueprint/bug to you or notify developers that you started working on something etc.). So a question is, do we have such a text somewhere internally (which we need only to polish and get online) or do we have to write it from scratch? Nikos On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Pepijn de Vos pepijnde...@gmail.com wrote: At Mozilla they have a system where bugs are tagged as easy and/or having a mentor available. This is maybe another way of attracting contributors. I'd be happy to fix some low hanging fruit knowing there is someone to assist me if I get stuck. Pepijn On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Nikos Vasilakis nikos.a...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, David. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:19 AM, David Gomes da...@elementaryos.org wrote: We decided not to apply given that we need to give higher focus to stabilizing our current projects and not just writing a bunch of new ones. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Nikos Vasilakis nikos.a...@gmail.com wrote: Did we apply, eventually? On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Daniel Foré dan...@elementaryos.org wrote: To be clear, what I'm saying is maybe we shouldn't be trying to make up stuff to do just to participate in Gsoc when we already have quite a lot to do even though it doesn't fit into Gsoc Cheers, Daniel Foré elementaryos.orgOn Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Daniel Foré dan...@elementaryos.org wrote: This thread is starting to look and sound like just a massive distraction. We already have quite a lot of very important things to do. I think one of the most important of which is get AppCenter to a shippable state. New things are cool and fun and exciting, but if we really have the extra time and resources I think we should be focusing on making sure what we already have is the best it can be. * There is still no search in Files * We just picked up Photos which needs a lot of work to bring its UI into alignment with our other apps * judging by the popularity of indicator synapse, we should probably investigate using libsynapse to improve the results in Slingshot * We need to fix deprecation warnings involving granite and gtk * Pantheon Online Accounts needs to be integrated into our default apps * Indicators are holding us back from Pantheon running on other platforms and frankly their designs aren't the best they could be. * Audience could use its UI re-written in GTK (instead of raw Cairo) now that we have things like overlay and revealer and can use custom CSS I mean there are literally a couple thousand bug reports open right now. Cheers, Daniel Foré elementaryos.orgOn Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Pepijn de Vos pepijnde...@gmail.com wrote: This tread is just the best way of finding software I need :) Would be cool if they where more easily discoverable though. This was a good start: http://www.elementaryupdate.com/2013/08/top-things-to-do-after-installing-luna.html Elementary's new motto: There's a PPA for that! But... what's wrong with just using Dropbox or UbuntuOne? I am aware that Preview does SOME things, but I never looked closely. So much Mac stealing going on here :D OS X is good, but not everything that's good is OS X. Pepijn On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Nikos Vasilakis nikos.a...@gmail.com wrote: Also, we have something similar, I believe: https://github.com/kjlaw89/draw On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Tristan Petersen trista...@me.com wrote: Pepijn, Are you familiar with the annotations feature of Mac OS X Preview app? It does essentially what you describe. I use it all the time to quickly annotate screenshots or pdfs. Regards, Tristan On Feb 14, 2014, at 3:41, Pepijn de Vos pepijnde...@gmail.com wrote: Another random idea, that is not a ripoff of OS X is... MS Paint! Something to annotate screenshots or draw a quick schematic. For real photo editing there is gimp, but something light to quickly draw and annotate is missing even from OS X. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp-- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to :
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas
We're missing a ton of other docs in the website too, but you know how it goes - writing docs is boring and everybody has better things to do. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Elementary-dev-community] Hey guys just letting you know
Hi, this hasn't nothing to do with Elementary OS. But look at this and be surprised what OS is that: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/02/dear-asus-router-user-youve-been-pwned-thanks-to-easily-exploited-flaw/ Enjoy cheers -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
