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[Nikos Vasilakis <nikos.ailo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Nikos Vasilakis <nikos.ailo@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <pepijndevos@xxxxxxxxx> 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.ailo@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, David. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:19 AM, David Gomes
>> <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.ailo@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Did we apply, eventually? On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Daniel Foré
>> <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.org > > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014
>> at 10:05 AM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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.org >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Pepijn de
>> Vos <pepijndevos@xxxxxxxxx> >> 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.ailo@xxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Also, we have
>> something similar, I believe: >>> https://github.com/kjlaw89/draw On Fri,
>> Feb 14, 2014 at 9:18 AM, >>> Tristan >>> Petersen <tristang4@xxxxxx> 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 <pepijndevos@xxxxxxxxx> 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:
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