I've been learning about forking, but haven't seen precisely my question answered. I'd like to use someone else's code in my own project. I do not want to submit a pull or change anything in the main branch, but instead start my own using someone else's code as a starting point. What is the best way to go about doing this?
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I saw people add many graphs, analytics, badges and many more things in their github profile. But how do they do this? See the attached picture and tell me about the process please.someone's github profile
you seem to be new here to Stackoverflow. Stackoverflow is a site where programmers help one another solve problems or issues that they are having with their code, environment, etc. Generally a question such as this would be closed, well at least from my experience. When asking a question you should probably ask something related to code or an issue (never ask how to do something with no existing code because people don't like that, coming from experience). Really only ask a question if there's an issue and a solution.
Back to your question, you can get all that stuff in that screenshot under stats here and you can add the tech stack stuff with any old github readme badge like this one. Just add what they tell you to your profiles markdown file, if you don't know how to do that look here.
A year ago I have started an issue on github repository of a popular open source project. There wasn't enough data to fix it because bug was caused only by one closed source program. Recently I have stumbled upon other program that causes the bug and this one is open source. This should make it possible to fix the issue.
I have added new comment in issue providing new information, but it got no response for 10 days.
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/6253
I wonder if maintainers see comments on old issues in their notifications?
If they do did they discard it by accident or perhaps because in their experience most comments on old issues are useless?
Should I just edit last comment there slightly?
Will they see that?
Or what to do?
The good news is the project is not dead. Issues have been closed recently and PRs have been merged. Someone is watching the queue. The bad news is the project has over 800 open issues at this time which means they're probably swamped.
Open Source projects are typically run by volunteers, and that looks like a low priority issue. If you want it solved, do everything you can do reduce the work necessary to fix the problem. You've already given clear instructions on how to reproduce the problem, that's a very good start.
The single best thing you can do is submit a PR with a complete patch including tests. Be sure to conform to their developer guidelines. That project does not leave PRs open long. If you can't do a complete patch, take a stab at it and submit the PR asking for help. If you don't know where to start patching, make a comment on the issue asking for help with where to start.
Basically, do the work. If you can't do the work, show a willingness to do the work.
Sorry for this novice question.
What a want to do: I forked a website (superman.github.io) to write upon it and making it my website (batman.github.io).
Someone can help me with, How can I do this?
As a novice I have only changed the name, what's the next step?
Make changes..test.. then commit and push it(only when you are sure that you have done one significant change or corrected something or added feature). If accepted your changes will be accepted.
This is the general cycle. You can try to learn why we use github?
The sole purpose is to version control. So after you forked it you work on your local copy (by cloning of course) and commit multiple times but when you think you have added a feature or corrected something on the code then you will push it to the original repository. Then make a pull request to remote original repository. If accepted then you be happy.. you have contributed something significant.
I am checking out code using GitHub client for Windows. When I press "clone" button in browser, it looks like I have a local copy. However, there are a few files that GitHub is asking me to commit. Now, I have not even made any changes to anything on my local. So why is it asking me to "commit"?
Can anyone tell me why I am facing this problem. Also, are there any good GitHub tutorials to follow?
Thanks in advance,
There is a great github tutorial here, that should get you started with the basics: http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/.
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I'm new to github and I like to help other people with their projects that I find interesting.
I know there are a lot of guides in the github place, but I think it could be nice to gather a bunch of real people's experiences.
So, I invite you to post about your first experiences in github.
Whether you are a not-so-newbie or you are a heavy rock in github comunnity, I think your lines could encourage real newbies like me about entering this great open source community.
It's pretty simple. You can summarise a simple community project's development into a circular process of just two simple actions:
Bug tracking. Testing the software, logging bugs, making sure they're filed in the right place, asking for more detail, etc. If valid, these reports carry the detail for the next phase:
Patching. Target a bug, reproduce it, change your code to fix it, test locally and push your patch. This loops back around to the first phase where the bug report is marked fixed or otherwise.
You've got to start with phase one. You don't have to follow a bug right through and you can help as simply as just hopping in and making sure other bug reporters are doing the right things (making sure there are dumps where applicable, making sure the tags are right, merging duplicates).
Or you can be more involved and test the software to find new bugs. The onus on getting things right is now your own.
Once you're more familiar with the project, its code and its maintainers, then you might be ready to get involved with fixing some of the outstanding bugs.
An important thing to remember is you can ask for help. Nobody expects an outsider to understand all the code or be able to fix all the bugs. Maintainers will very often be more than happy to help somebody get started because they'll often get their time back from work you do on the project.
EDIT: CodeTriage.com can help for this.
This is kind of an old question, but there is a new site that's trying to help people like the OP to find projects to contribute to.
The site is called Looking For Pull Requests (it's dead now in 2016) and it aims to help people looking for help to find people wanting to help.
You can just browse the list of projects and see how active they are, or you can even publish your project pretty easily.
Github is just a website which aggregates projects. You need to ask the project maintainers themselves how they want you to help. It is pointless asking here as we do not know the specific rules for the project you are interested in. Different projects have different ways of doing things and require help in different areas.
Learn how to use Git would be the number one thing to say. Oh, and make sure you following the coding standards.