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okay well I'll go ahead and get started here it's right at 3 3 30 Eastern so I |
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believe that's the time we're supposed to start welcome uh to my session on How |
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to Be an Effective open source project participant and I'm looking forward to |
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this one this is actually a a bit of a a repeat of a session that I did at a |
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previous DN Summit and it went over so well I figured I would do it again and |
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try to help some people out with with things especially as it relates to uh |
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GitHub so for those of you that do not know me I Am David Poindexter also |
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affectionately known as Dean and Dave uh be sure to visit the Indian dave.com and my YouTube channel and please do |
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subscribe to the YouTube channel because I'm going to be doing a lot of content over the coming days weeks and months |
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ahead um I am the CEO of imaginative we are a creative of marketing and app |
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development firm located in the Charlotte North Carolina area I am the |
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strategy lead for DN leader in the DNN leadership team getting a little tongue-tied here own board of directors |
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for DNA and connect and co-president of the Southern Fried DNN |
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Meetup Group various ways in which you can connect with me or down at the bottom there as |
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well as with our company in visionado so what are we going to cover in this |
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session um we're going to talk a little bit about what open source is and why in the |
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world you should care and if you are like minty many that are |
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entering into this open source age that we're in |
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um at some point you're going to say but I don't get it you know what the heck is getting what is GitHub and what is all |
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this terminology mean and why is everybody so obsessed with it using it |
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and so forth we're going to go over a lot of that um but I'm going to try to get through |
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the slides as quickly as possible because I want to do some Hands-On things and really show a few people a |
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few people about kind of how to interact with GitHub a little bit more in a granular fashion and we're going to talk |
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a little bit about how you can contribute even if you're not a Dev because let's face it uh GitHub is here |
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to stay get is here to stay and you can participate in ways that aren't just |
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code but we're going to talk about some of those so let's talk a little bit about what |
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open source is and and why in the world you should care well open source is |
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commonly referred to as just free software well that's not always the case |
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right um open source is where the code is being shared and depending on the |
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licensing model that's been placed on that code it may be able to be freely used but a lot of times especially on a |
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larger project projects and so forth It's there's a lot of effort that goes |
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into these solutions that people make and so |
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sometimes the contributors of those or are creators of those Solutions can be |
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supported via some kind of structuring or sponsoring structure like GitHub |
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sponsors or patreon or something like that but I don't think we really need to |
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have that mentality of open sources just free well it is and some of it you can |
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use for free and even for commercial use but that's not really the heart behind |
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it so to speak so it's really about the source code being open for you to be |
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able to see it and work with it and interact with it um yeah so anyways that's just a little bit |
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of encouragement uh because we run in the disc quite a bit you know where people kind of treat it as if you're a |
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company making tons of money with the software and hey you need to fix the issue that I found well I mean it's open |
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source that means you can participate in that open source project you can |
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contribute to it you can help you with giving information about the issue you |
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know so there's just ways that we can interact with those that are maintaining |
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these projects you know in DNM platform being a huge one right |
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um anytime that you have an issue with DNM platform well long gone are the days that there's this Corporation you know |
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behind the whole thing and everything flows through a team of Engineers and all that well that's just not been the |
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case for a long time even though it's been open source for you know since the beginning it now truly is open source in |
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the sense that it's Community Driven and so forth so anytime that you have an issue just remember that these are |
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volunteers that are out there that are working hard and passion work for |
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something that they love and they care about and they want to support so anything that you can do to help make |
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their life easier either for you to contribute code or if that's not your |
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expertise you know at least giving them the information they need in order to be able to replicate an issue or something |
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like that so a little bit about open source we could talk all day just about that but |
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well where in the world does open source live |
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um we've gone through many iterations of Open Source platforms and you know that |
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allow developers to share code and so forth you may remember back in the day |
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you know DNN being on oh my gosh my brain just now had a lapse |
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um what was it um a lot as you're in this room what was that called uh |
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um yep I can't even remember but it was before GitHub days right and we we ultimately went to GitHub |
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um but I've got code projects stuck in my head but no uh it was something else |
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that's gonna bother me uh for quite some time so if anybody knows the answer to that one uh put it in there this year |
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DNN Jeopardy trivia question for this particular session |
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um code Plex that's it sorry just came came to my mind but there's been a bunch of |
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different kinds of um uh platforms out there to be able to share codon as well as to go and find |
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code and use it and get it and interact with it um and they have pros and cons to each |
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platform so GitHub has just kind of evolved as one of the more popular ones |
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that are used in the open source communities so we'll do a little bit of focusing on that but most likely you |
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have at some point hit a brick wall like uh yeah I |
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I see it but I don't know what in the world this is or why uh what's the way |
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that it is it just seems really confusing maybe you're coming maybe you are a |
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developer and you've come from a more traditional older Source control platform like |
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um something like visual Source safe or in later years you know TFS |
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um and get just seems to be so different |
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right than the way that that worked same Concepts you know of of source control |
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and versioning and things like that but just the flow of things may seem quite a |
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bit different and you find yourself up against a brick wall trying to wrap your head around how this works terminology |
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is different semantics are different and so forth and you you may find yourself pulling out your hair quite a bit and |
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throwing things around and wanting to drink more coffee so that you could try to understand a little even a little bit |
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more and ultimately you just I I just don't get it well I'm here to tell you don't |
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be afraid of the force um we're stuck with Git it's here to stay |
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and in particular you may hear these terms used |
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synonymously but they're not really the same so git is actually the system you know the the methodology the way of |
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doing things it's actually the underlying technology tool you know to to do all this Source control but GitHub |
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is just one implementation of a system that's built off of get principles and |
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get you know usage so not really the same thing but you're using git when |
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you're working with GitHub now github's done a fabulous job of |
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in the browser being able to make a lot of that a little bit easier from a user |
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experience standpoint and some of the things that you can do in more common |
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terminology you know in the in the browser like new issue or whatever |
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um things like that are or extra things that are kind of and kind of handle it in their experience but you may have |
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used like get lab or or and my dog is barking hold on just a second |
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I have to tell him to hush um he is excited because somebody is walking by with a dog |
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um what was I saying um yeah so some of their user experience is a little bit different where you may have gone to |
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bitbucket and it'd be similar but not exactly the same as GitHub all of these |
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are built off of git but they they have their own kind of uh opinions of how |
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users can interact via the browser and so forth so what are some of the ways that GitHub |
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has used this not just for source code because I you know we've all seen crazy code you |
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know living out there in some repository on GitHub and that's what we think of maybe when we think of GitHub |
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um but that's not really the only use uh for GitHub or git |
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a lot of people I think of an author that is writing a book and they want to |
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organize their pages of the book I've actually seen GitHub repos set up for |
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authors you know to to make their Open Source book you know in their writing be |
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more available or digestible in a source controlled fashion just thinking the benefits of that to having you know such |
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of the rich history of versioning and so forth of of their book it'd be a great |
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way for Publishers uh to to work with that I've seen people you know like |
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doing presentations like I'm doing right now making those available I want to get Hub repo or design work or processes |
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that you or your company leverage to to be able to get stuff done and you need a |
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place to store those in a easily consumable fashion either through private use within your within your |
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organization or in a public way where other people can contribute to those processes and involve those over time or |
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workflows that you may use or documentation I mean think about things like DNN docs well yeah it's code and |
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there is a build system and all that but it's documentation so I mean it could be literally just a bunch of Word documents |
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that are sitting out there or Pages document if you're on Mac OS so there's |
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a lot of use for git and GitHub |
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um that is not just code focused so you don't have to be a coding Guru in order to be able to leverage some of the |
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benefits of get and being able to version things and so forth like that |
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being able to hear the community's feedback on particular things or |
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resolve issues or plan out things we'll see a little bit later kind of how you |
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can leverage the projects feature to be able to plan out your projects or your |
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next version of things so why do developers love it so much |
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well it's kind of a love-hate relationship for a lot of developers especially at the beginning |
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but it is based on git and that is a known open source tool itself |
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very powerful and offers a lot that older Source Control Systems did not |
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offer so it it has become very popular because |
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of that and GitHub in particular has done a great job with their user experience in the browser like I |
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mentioned earlier so it's it's quite quite evolved and popular |
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it's a great way to share projects for the developers is a obviously a great |
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place to store code and you can do that in a public or a private fashion so it's |
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not just for open source it could be used for your closed Source projects as |
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well in private repos it retains all of the history every |
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little thing that you do in the repository is logged you know it's it's there in the history and you can get |
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back to any point in time with a bit of knowledge of git |
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it's a great way to collaborate with others being able to work with other developers |
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or designers or QA testers I mean just all sorts of ways in which you can use |
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it as an interaction tool and even a project management tool to really kind of plan things out |
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and of course us developers have a bit of ego from time to time so it's a great way to show |
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off our Mad Skills right so let's talk a little bit about the terminology of GitHub and some things |
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that you may see out here and may help you a little bit piece together some things so we've got a repository or |
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people refer to as a repo short for Repository it's really just a place that is |
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designated for a particular collection of files that's all there is to it nothing more |
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we've got code that lives in a repo right and each code change can be committed so |
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we we see the term commits branches are simply just there's a lot |
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more to this and I'm not going to go into a ton of detail here but there is a |
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wonderful video out there that Daniel velas actually referred me to is fear |
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not the Shah Sha and it for those of you are Geeks and |
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really like the details of how git really works um that is a wonderful video I'll see if |
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I can uh maybe if Daniel's still in this uh in this particular session he can |
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post the link to that video there that would be awesome um if not I'll try to remember it myself |
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um branches are really kind of think of those as like a a way to take a copy of |
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something that is in a certain State and put it over beside it and just name it |
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something different and you can make changes over here if you want to you can commit them back to the the main branch |
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so you can have as many branches as you want within get and it's really powerful and then we've got a concept of releases |
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where when you get to a certain state of the code or the files |
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I should have probably put files here because in some of those non-code examples I showed earlier it's really |
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just about the state of those files when you get to a certain State and you want to make a release then there's that |
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concept of making a release on GitHub as well there's the concept of issues and this |
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one can be a little bit misleading I know I was a little confused by this when I first started experiencing getting GitHub |
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um the concept of an issue is really just a way to document something that |
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you want to see work differently or maybe you want to have a conversation about it I know in the early days |
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issues were kind of where you had conversations too so let's just say you're trying to use a particular |
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solution from a GitHub repo and you just can't get it to work while |
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you think it should work or whatever and you just want to ask a question well you would create an issue even though it's |
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not really an issue it's just that you're having a challenge and you need some help some support or whatever |
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then you would post to create a new issue to be able to dialogue with other |
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people in that particular Community or the project maintainers to be able to to |
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learn and those issues can be closed so issues now are really used a little bit |
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more for literally like issues and there are other features out there and GitHub like discussion you'll see some repos |
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have a discussions Tab and that's a little bit more for just having kind of open discussions when you don't have a |
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specific issue that needs to be followed up with foreign |
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this is a big one pull requests what the heck are you guys talking about |
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when you talk about pull request well think of this me as a developer that wants to |
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contribute to a project that is living in GitHub well I have to have a local copy of that |
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code right in order to work with it so what the typical kind of way of doing |
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this is is and this is so mysterious for a lot of people but it's actually way more simple |
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than we think it is when we're first starting to think about it so let's take DNM platform for instance |
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well if I want to work with DNM platform on GitHub what I would do is I would go |
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out to the you know the GitHub repo for DNM platform and I would Fork that into my GitHub |
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account so then I've got two copies of that repo right and then I would have a copy locally |
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which would be my local repo so I would have three repos essentially |
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I would have my local I would have the main repo which is what we often name as the Upstream repo |
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and then I would have my origin repo which is the fork repo this on my |
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account and those that's kind of the simple um |
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first baby steps I guess of really understanding how the repos work but a pull request if I made it this is the |
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DNN platform repo and this is my fort repo and GitHub and then this is my local here |
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I would make changes to my local I would push that to my origin which is my fort repo |
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and then I would say it's almost like making a phone call up to the main repo and say hey I've got a branch over here |
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that I want you to consider for merging into your code base but it's over here on my little fort repo well I would make |
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a pull request from the Upstream repo to pull my changes from my origin into it |
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and that's really what a pull request is it's just any request to pull code from another Repository |
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that one's kind of a big one uh to to wrap your head around and then we got the concept of projects |
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and this is more of a project management Tool uh this this within GitHub some projects have these and some don't uh |
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choose to enable those um but we leverage this on DNM platform to track new issues that are coming in |
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and the state of those issues in general so if it's a ones that won this awaiting triage we |
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use a board on a project you know to be able to move those from a waiting triage to an enhancement or a feature or a bug |
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and we kind of categorize those and then we have a closed and different projects |
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use these were different repos I should say leverage projects in
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