[Shotwell] Want to contribute but I have some problems here and a question.

[ZedTuX ZedR00t]

Hi Bruno, and thanks for all your information.

Just to be sure to be clear with you, in a first step I will not 
implement face recognition, but a feature to be able to define who is on 
the picture manually.

I'm ok to work on a copy of the trunk and just put a svn diff in the 
ticket, but svn (and others) have the feature to create branches. Why 
shouldn't I create a branch that I maintain myself (merging) to do my work ?

Well, thanks for your help ! :)

Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 09:34 +0200, ZedTuX ZedR00t wrote:
>    
>> Hello Adam,
>>
>> Okay. I have asked this question because for code submitting, Launchpad
>> (like github) offer very good features.
>> Anyway, I prefer to work with Launchpad an Bazaar, so as I saw an
>> automatic import in Launchpad for Shotwell, I will build my own branch
>> and when I will have finished, I will do a patch or you will merge it
>> your self, if my feature and code are accepted ;)
>>      
>
> The process I have been using, as an external contributor is:
>        * Assign myself to the ticket (in your case 1702)
>        * Get the code out of SVN trunk, as described in the download
>          source section on this page: http://yorba.org/shotwell/install/
>        * Implement the feature locally, making sure to run svn update on
>          a regular basis to have the latest changes
>        * Attach the output of svn diff to the ticket
>
> I think the important thing is that the work you do be attached to a
> ticket in Trac so that it doesn't come as a complete surprise when you
> submit it. Also, having it in Trac means that it's easy to attach your
> patch to the ticket, irrespective of whether you go the Launchpad or the
> SVN route.
>
> Bruno
>
>
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