Request: A beginner's guide to dive into xfce development

[Romain B]

Hey,

Oh, and don't forget to open a bug on https://bugzilla.xfce.org with 
your patches assigned to the correct component :)

We need to improve our "beginner's guide": 
https://wiki.xfce.org/contribute / 
https://docs.xfce.org/contribute/start , and maybe only keep only one 
version, there is lot of duplicate content between the "open" wiki.x.o 
and docs.x.o , help needed ! ;)



On 11/02/2017 09:24 PM, Alex wrote:
> Hi Hanno,
>
> always happy to see that somebody wants to contibute !
>
> Andre already told most of the stuff I wanted to tell ;) ... just a few
> more notes regarding the workflow for gtk3 porting:
>
> - Clone the related repo and do your changes ( in the branch of your
> choice )
>
> - When everything works fine with gtk3 and you think you fixed all
> regressions, ask some other devs to test your changes. Either post a
> link to your patch on #xfce-dev, or provide a fork of your repo e.g. via
> some public git webhoster.
> ( Infrastructure-people are currently evaluating to move the xfce repos
> to gitea ... so hopefully we will have support for pull-requests soon )
>
> - After others tested and approved your patch, either it will be applied
> on master, or you will get permissions to do so yourself.
>
> Probably you will have more questions ... feel free to ask! But remember
> to be patient, these people all have a real-life. Unfortunately most of
> them need to go to work and such things :X
> So best get some irc-bouncer ( I use a free one from www.elitebnc.org)
> and idle in #xfce-dev on freenode to keep track on ongoing changes.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex ( alexxcons)
>
>
>
> On 02.11.2017 03:26, André Miranda wrote:
>> Hi Hanno,
>> As Igor suggested, join #xfce-dev and let us know what parts of Xfce
>> you're more interest to work on, what's missing and etc.
>> New features and enhancements are not the currently our focus, but are
>> welcome and might be released in 4.14.
>>
>> Things are slow due the port, it's far from exciting, but most of the
>> job is done, only few apps and some plugins need work, obviously the
>> ones that are not so popular. If by any chance you use one of them, I
>> suggested that you try to port it to gtk3.
>>
>> Another way to help with the migration is to test development releases
>> and report regressions (patches are a plus), some components (e.g.
>> panel and thunar) still have pending regressions to be solved. If
>> you're interested ask for directions on #xfce-dev (please be patient,
>> we're all volunteers in multiple timezones).
>>
>> All in all, independent of the OSS project, you can always start
>> "scratching your own itch"[1], that's how I started a few years ago,
>> fixing bugs that annoyed me and making small improvements (e.g.
>> closing windows with middle-click on panel).
>>
>> 1 -
>> http://gezeiten.org/pre-2014/post/2012/11/How-to-start-contributing-to-Xfce-or-any-other-open-source-project
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andre Miranda
>>
>> On 11/01/2017 11:28 AM, Hanno Zulla wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> it would be helpful to have a Wiki document that will guide a
>>> semi-interested beginning developer to dive into contributing.
>>>
>>> I did read these
>>>
>>> https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.14/roadmap
>>> http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/building
>>> http://docs.xfce.org/contribute/dev/get-a-contributor-account
>>>
>>> But right now, I'm at a loss at where to start. XFCE is a big code base
>>> and it's unclear which parts need work.
>>>
>>> There's status information on the roadmap, but some entries there have a
>>> percentage > 0 yet haven't been worked on in a while, so apparently work
>>> on them has stalled.
>>>
>>> The roadmap states that the current focus is on the GTK transition, yet
>>> the Wiki suggests that a beginning developer should try to fix easy bugs
>>> instead.
>>>
>>> So it's difficult to find a good entry to contributing. It's unclear
>>> which branch to work on, where to fix bugs, the proper way to contribute
>>> patches or how to choose a subproject that needs work and e.g. what are
>>> the common steps of GTK transition work.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Hanno
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