Hi!
A while back, a group of contributors was planning to take care of
adapting asknot-ng, a Fedora application powering
whatcanidoforfedora.org, for use by the openSUSE Project. That did not
happen, so I decided to take it upon myself to get it going. However, I
don't know everything that happens within the project, or how much
everything within the project works, as much as I would like to, so I
need some help with finishing this task.
# How does asknot-ng work?
asknot-ng works by providing a tree of choices, which it then uses to
point people in a direction of things to do within a project.
The tree is composed of a few layers of categories (as many as required
by the branch) which always results in some link the person can follow
to learn more about contributing to a certain part of the project.
# How to help out with this task?
If you are a person currently responsible for or know how to contribute
to something within the project, we would most likely want to include
you in this. There are a lot of ways to contribute, and individually we
can't know them all, but all together we can find out ways to reach
contributors and for the contributors to reach us.
If you are just a contributor, that has been interested in contributing
to a certain part of the project but couldn't figure it out, we would
like to hear from you as well. I'm sure we will not get a full coverage
from just the contributors here, so your feedback is essential for us
to be able to reach out to the right people we might have not
considered.
# What are the requirements for inclusion?
As you may be aware, some of the stuff that is developed within the
openSUSE Project, or closely associated to the project, has guides
helping out the new contributors to be able to contribute to it. In
some cases that is CONTRIBUTING.md document in the root of a git repo,
in others it's a wiki page like How to contribute to Factory, which is
likely pretty well known to anyone that has ever pushed anything to
Factory. This kind of documentation is something which we would like to
help you develop for your branch of contributions, so that other people
can help out in a more meaningful way.
There are plenty of helpful resources for writing good contributing
guides on the internet[1], though a lot of them apply to code and not
necessarily to other forms of contributions. Remember that any
contributor can be a newcomer, and may not necessarily understand
things that may be obvious to you, and may want to use your repository
as their learning experience. Explaining how things come together is
one of the primary things that have to be written down. Ruby on Rails
application repository doesn't look like a Ruby on Rails application
repository to somebody who has never seen one, and even when using
Weblate, it's easy to get lost when you first get started.
For software development, we don't want to link people directly to git
repos, because even if they are more familiar with concepts like git,
programming languages and have coded before, contribution guides
explain how the repo in particular is developed, how to test and run
software, and what to consider before creating a pull request.
For other forms of contributions, just linking to a homepage is not
exactly helpful, we still want to explain how and why to contribute.
It's really important to include some form of contact (mailing list,
matrix, irc) to the maintainers and developers of the project.
Projects not directly under openSUSE, but related to it in significant
way (like KDE or GNOME upstreams for example) also count as something
we would like to have included.
# I have the guide now, how do I include it?
If you don't want to mess around with editing yaml files, feel free to
create an issue on asknot-ng GitHub page[2] or get in contact with us
with methods listed below.
If you do want to contribute more directly, there are example yaml
files from Fedora side of things already[3], while the openSUSE ones[2]
are a little bit empty. The existing content in the openSUSE yaml files
is not final, I just wanted to get the website working, so feel free to
either add your contribution based on the existing branches, or create
a new one. The fact that your project is currently listed doesn't mean
it will stay that way then, it may just be a placeholder. If you would
like to know our opinion on this before you PR, we have the contact
info listed below.
Do not worry too much about images, I will likely be going over them
later anyway, and will create whatever ends up being required.
# Where will this be hosted?
Currently the plan is contribute.opensuse.org, I have already submitted
an MR to host it on our pinot machine, and it's being reviewed. It will
likely come up online in the next couple of days for preview purposes,
while we work on adding content.
# How do I get in contact with you?
There are a few ways:
* GitHub issues on asknot-ng repo[2]
* #web:opensuse.org on matrix
* #web on discord.gg/opensuse
* web(a)lists.opensuse.org mailing list
* #opensuse-web on libera.chat
[1] https://mozillascience.github.io/working-open-workshop/contributing/
also includes follow up resources
[2] https://github.com/openSUSE/asknot-ng
[3]
https://github.com/fedora-infra/asknot-ng/blob/develop/questions/fedora.ymlhttps://github.com/fedora-infra/asknot-ng/tree/develop/questions/includes/f…
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