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Re: [sirius-dev] Questions regarding a first contribution
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On 25/03/2019 12:05, Emmanuel Chebbi wrote:
Hello,
Hi Emmanuel,
I have been working with Sirius for some time and now I would like to
contribute to the project by writing code.
Thanks for your proposal!
I read the contributing guides but I am still a bit unsure about which
bug I could address. There are many ones in Bugzilla, so should I
randomly pick an unassigned one in the list and then contribute with a
patch? Or are they prioritized somehow?
We don't maintain a list of such "starter" tickets (my bad), but I'll
try to find a few candidates in the next few days. Are there particular
areas that you know well or are specially interesed in? For example:
Eclipse UI improvements, core EMF stuff, GEF/GMF work to improve
specifically the diagrams?
Moreover, as I have never contributed to an Eclipse project before I
am still a bit confused with the use of Gerrit. From my understanding,
in order to propose a contribution I have to:
1. Commit on the master branch
2. Push to
ssh://myusername@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:29418/sirius/org.eclipse.sirius.org.git
3. Wait for the review on Gerrit
Am I right?
Regarding the process, you need to make sure you have signed the Eclipse
Contributor Agreement [1] first, or any patches you propose will be
rejected by the system. As for Gerrit, there is a little initial setup
involved, but the process is indeed to:
1. Create the commit(s) on your local clone. It can be on master, but
technically this is not a strict requirement. Make sure your commit
message has a "Change-Id" footer so that if there are multiple
iterations on the patch they can be tracked as such (their "Change-Id"
will stay the same).
2. Push to the Gerrit repo (the URL you mentioned), but on the special
branch "refs/for/master" (or "refs/for/v6.1.x" if you target a different
branch).
3. Wait for a review, and iterate on the patch if needed. The team is
generally quite busy, so I can not give you a fixed delay for the time
to review, but if you propose a patch we'll try to react quickly. Do not
hesitate to drop me a mail if needed.
The Eclipse Wiki has a page with all the details [2] about the Gerrit
contribution process.
Regards,
Pierre-Charles David
[1] https://accounts.eclipse.org/user/eca
[2] https://wiki.eclipse.org/Gerrit
