LibreCAD - Re: Presentation and S.O.S

Re: Presentation and S.O.S

Posted by dxli on Oct 31, 2011; 6:01pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Presentation-and-S-O-S-tp4952926p4953082.html

Hi Michael,

did you follow github help?

http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/

if you are use linux OS/X, it's even easier with command list. Let me know if you need help on unix-like, since I'm a linux only guy.

We need help on many areas, to name a few,

hatch: src/lib/engin/rs_hatch.cpp
point entity type: src/lib/engine/rs_point.cpp
command line: commandEvent() functions in src/actions/
scripts, I haven't looked at this part yet

Another way to to start is to read our bug/feature request trackers,

http://librecad.org/cms/home/get-help.html

you may find some easy fixes for bugs, or read closed bugs, read the commits which fixed the bugs. It will help you to get some picture about how it works.

Finally, in the orientation process, you may want to contribute to our LibreCAD wiki (user wiki, and developer wiki),

http://zxq9.com/librecad/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/wiki

Thanks,

Dongxu Li

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:06 PM, PatGuano [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Good evening.

I am Michael Uplawski, developer with some C++/Qt-, and other background. For some days already, I try to understand how I could contribute to the LibreCAD development.

Originally from Germany, I am living in France now where I try to make the "transition" to a more ecological life-style. This is a rather agriculture-oriented move and includes many things; most are not IT-related. However, free software must help me to keep my head over water for some time and anyway.., it may be the only software worth talking about, before long.

So, LibreCAD. I used first QCad, then LibreCAD to design my plan for our new house (which will be a GREB-construction, i.e. wood/straw). In the process, I found some oddities and thought I could take a look at the code. So I did and now I feel like contributing code, but also documentation and, -why not-, translations to the project.

Alas.

Having just registered to the mailing list... or nabble (what is it?), I am a little shocked to find a multitude of communication-channels being used by the LibreCAD-community. As for the last days I tried to get warm with GIT and failed, I concentrated on that platform and solely posted two or three issues there.

At the same time, I worked a little on my own fork in order to understand the project and maybe contribute on a rather modest level.

This evening, as I write this message, I am at a complete loss. GIT will not let me "fetch upstream" and I cannot really see a way to securely publish any of my changes. With the new knowledge gained from looking at the many threads on this discussion-... "platform" I take, that my understanding of the project had all been wrong in the first place.

... You may be into this for months and longer but should consider a guide to "contributing to LibreCAD" much more concise than the hints already given in different places or on diverse occasions... But that is for the future and you will find a way.

For now it is just this: What shall I do? ;-)

TY.

Michael Uplawski.
www.uplawski.eu

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