Re: [outreachy] am I in the right track to contribute

[Laura Lazzati]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 3:12 PM Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Hello Laura,
>
> Laura Lazzati <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 10., Sze 18:41):
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>> On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 1:17 PM Björn Höfling
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> > Hi Laura,
>> >
>> > On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 10:08:44 -0300
>> > Laura Lazzati <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi everyone!
>> > >
>> > > I don't know if is it OK to be telling you what I am/ I've been doing
>> > > these days, I kind of like doing so to have feedback, and also to let
>> > > you know
>> >
>> > This is exactly the way to go! It's good to hear where you stay, what
>> > you tried, where you succeeded, where you got stuck. If you get stuck,
>> > tell us about the paths you already tried out and why you don't get
>> > further alone.
>> >
>> Sorry for being absent for a day. After updating and upgrading my
>> computer, I am stuck trying to see why the sound stopped working. Yes,
>> this kind of thinks happen but just now?
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>
> No worries, one day off is perfectly ok, however if you did not get an answer 
> in 3 or 4 days, then please contact us, since in that case there is some 
> communications mistake.
> Last time losing sound happened to me after a dist-upgrade in ubuntu, and 
> turned out, that the pulseaudio package shipped with a configuration that was 
> not compatible with the version of the binaries supplied. I ran it in the 
> foreground, and in the startup messages or in the log I found that it could 
> not parse the config. It can be something entirely different though. I hope 
> this helps.

Thanks :) Unluckily i made a mistake and ended up needing  a fresh
install. But I am the kind of person that always has data backup and
is aware of the software and utilities that needs. Tomorrow I will go
on with my VMs, the one with only Guix, and one with GuixSD and start
with the package stuff, so that I can contribute as much as I can,
even if I am not chosen for outreachy.
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>> > One thing that was today on the Outreachy mentors-mailinglist: If you
>> > finally made a contribution, please go directly on the Outreachy
>> > project page, select the Guix project and formally record your
>> > contributions. That's important to us and for the whole Outreachy
>> > project to see who/how many applicants are possible candidates for a
>> > project
If I do the R packaging, where do I record in Guix? And I am keeping
my daily journal with the problems I encounter, but I am not very sure
about where to upload it for Guix. As regards my daily journal. is it
OK to hace it in Google Drive? I know its FOSS, but it's a good way of
easily updating the doc and having it accesible. And in outreachy it
says that Refining current documentation is a contribution too. I
don't know if this applies also to problems I encounter and how I
managed to solve them.

See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info.





>> >
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>> > > I installed guix on a VM with an Ubuntu distro and it worked fine - i
>> > > ran some basic commands.
>> > >  I am trying to install GuixSD over that VM too and on bare metal -
>> > > don't know if this two steps are necessary, but looking at the tasks
>> > > for Outreachy one items says that I will be doing documentation for
>> > > it.
>> >
>> > Concerning bare metal: Guix uses 100% Free Software und thus uses the
>> > libre kernel, not the normal vanilla kernel. That means some binaries
>> > included in the vanilla kernel are stripped off. Hickups might occur,
>> > especially with Network, WLAN and Graphics, compared to Ubuntu.
>> >
>> I thought that by installing bare metal ment installing it on a VM
>> without any operating system. I mean, putting the ISO there. I only
>> have one retro PC available with no OS where I could be trying that -
>> it is like 13 years old, and it is not a laptop.
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>
> It is ok to skip that all together, a VM install is more than enough for now.
>
>> > As always before installing a new OS, make backups of your data and
>> > configurations on that machine!
>> >
>> > > 1) should I write, at least for myself, the problems I've been
>> > > encountering in the whole process of doing everything?
>> >
>> > Yes, very good! I do that for myself too. It leads to good, reproducible
>> > bug reports, bug fixes, documentation fixes, blog entries and could also
>> > be used as a starting point for a screenplay for the videos.
>> Love doing this kind of things.
>> >
>> > Björn
>
> Best regards,
> g_bor