Re: New outreachy participant introduction

[Gábor Boskovits]

Hello Nardos,

Asfaw, Nardos <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. okt. 3., Cs, 18:13):

Hello Guix!

My name is Nardos, and I am an Outreachy participant from Indiana University, Bloomington. I am a first time open source contributor hopeful. I am excite to be here, but I will admit I am also a little nervous. I welcome feedback as I am here to learn from all of you. I can be reached at address@hidden or www.nardos.dev 

Happy to see you here.

I also have a few questions:

1. I am opting to run Guix in a virtual machine on a kali linux.  I have found this resource: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Running-Guix-in-a-VM.html#Running-Guix-in-a-VM. Given your experience, would this cause a problem down the line? Any recommendation on running Guix in a virtual machine vs on my PC?

This should work fine, but as Chris metioned, it might be easier to install Guix as a package manager. One trick with the vm image is that it barely contains enough space to be useful as is, so you will have to resize it.

2. Upon making contributions, where is it posted? and how do I see feedbacks? I have seen lists of open projects and discussion treads such as this (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/22138)  on the Guix patch tracker. Are these the issues we currently working on? 

To open a new issue you can send a mail to either guix-patches or bug-guix mailing list. Then the debbugs instance behind these lists creat a new issue number for your request. Further mails should be sent to address@hidden, where the issue number is in the acknowledgement e-mail. You can see that later in an url like you posted at issues.guix.gnu.org.

3. Any beginner tips? and a good place to start? 

You could do some packaging, or go for an easy bug. In earlier rounds we recommended to try to package some R stuff first, as R has a well working importer. It is important to notice that there is a quite short deadline for initial contribution, and having something in is strictly needed for proceeding further. Therefore I would go for something really easy. Once you have one contribution registered, we can find something that is nearer to the project you are really interested in.

Another aspect is that doing a simple packaging will get you familiar with the workflow and helps to check if everything is ok with the installation.

Also, if you have a particular project in mind please let us know.

I look forward to working with you all. 

I am also looking forward to working with you.

Thanks,

Nardos

Best regards,

g_bor

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