How to contribute to tryton

(or another open source project)

Available on: http://pokoli.github.io/contribute-to-tryton

Who am I?

Sergi Almacellas Abellana

• (Python ♥) Programmer
• Open source enthusiast
• Tryton commiter since Nov 2013

What does contribute mean?

To give ( money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc. ) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.

Source: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/contribute

Types of contributions

(in open source projects)

• Coding
• Translating
• Documenting
• Reporting Bugs
• Testing
• Suporting other users
• Discussing new features
• Donating Money
• Spread the word

Before contributing code

1. Search existing discussions/issues
• On the discourse server:
  https://discuss.tryton.org/
• On the bug tracker:
  https://bugs.tryton.org
2. Ask/Discuss on the IRC/ML
   • irc://irc.freenode.net/tryton
   • http://groups.tryton.org
3. Read contribution rules
Patches always on latest development version
4. Read code style
PEP8 (with exceptions), 80cols
5. Inform about your plans
Assign to issue yourself & state=in progress

Submiting code

1. Clone: hg clone https://hg.tryton.org/trytond
2. Modify
vi filename.py
3. Run tests
python setup.py test
4. Upload
hg review -m "trytond: Explanation of your change"
5. Review
mutt & browser
6. Re-Upload
hg review -m "fix comments"
7. Commit
Normally by a core developer

Code Review

• Before commit
• Using rietveld:
  https://codereview.tryton.org

Giving feedback

• On Other users code

• On Discussions and issues

Translations

String freeze 1 month before release

• Using pootle: https://pootle.tryton.org
• Create suggestions

• Approved by Language Admins
• Ask for new languages on bugtracker

Donate

• Recurring
  • Wire Transfer
  • Paypal
  • Bitcoin
  • Flatter
  • Gittip
• On development
  • Indigogo

Thank you!

The presentation code is avaiable on

http://github.com/pokoli/contribute-to-tryton
Contributions are welcome ;-)