[Ktechlab-devel] providing more options for new contributors (new github repo)

[Zoltan Padrah]

On Thu, 19 May 2011 21:59:34 +0200, Julian Bäume <julian at svg4all.de> wrote:

> moin,
> yesterday we decided to try out github to host our sources. This will  
> make it
> more easy for new contributors to fork the project and get their changes
> upstream. You can find the sources at
>
> https://github.com/ktechlab/ktechlab
>
> Feel free to fork and create pull-requests!


I'd just like to detail these concepts for the people who have not used  
git or github:

- forking of a source tree on github means that somebody prepares the  
source tree for modifications; it won't create a new project, as fork in  
the 'classical' sense. After creating a fork, modifications can be applied  
to that source tree

- pull request: request for integrating the modifications in the original  
sources. Thanks to git, this can be done very easily, even if the original  
project has evolved since the creation of the modified version. The  
changes will be review-ed, of course.


In other world, now it should be much easier for anybody to work on  
ktechlab and to contribute.

Have fun exploring these possibilities,

   Zoltan

>
> bye then
> julian