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Join the Activity Team

The Activity Team is newly formed and we are seeking members.

If you would like to join:

1. Create a User page on wiki.sugarlabs.org if you have not already.
2. Copy your SSH public key into your User page.
3. Add a link to your User page to ActivityTeam/Contacts.
4. Send an email introducing yourself to sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org.

If you are an independent developer who is interested in working on a Sugar activity, please introduce yourself and your project in an email to sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org.

Quick Start

If you'd rather just start coding right now, it's easy to do!

• Install sugar at first
  • The easiest way is installing sugar from native packages
  • If your favourite GNU/Linux distribution doesn't provide sugar or contains out-of-dated packages(in most cases you don't need latest minor release(like 0.82.1, 0.84.1), the good practise is looking for the last major release(0.82, 0.84)) you could consider possibility to use sugar-jhbuild - the system used by core developers to build sugar from last git sources.
• Check ActivityTeam/TODO for ideas to work on. To start small, pick an Activity Feature Request. If you'd rather work on something harder, try one of the High Impact Tasks.
• If you haven't already set up Sugar, see ActivityTeam/Resources.
• Clone the Git repository for the project you picked and register it with Sugar.

git clone <project_url>
cd project_name
python setup.py dev
(Ctrl-Alt-Erase to restart Sugar)

• Hack on the source code.
• Test you code in sugar environment
  • use sugar command to run sugar as a regular window manager
  • use sugar-emulator command to run sugar in window mode(in Xephyr), could be useful to test your activity in current environment without re-loginning.
• Create a patch file containing your changes.

git commit
git format-patch -1

• Email 0001-My-change-description.patch to sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org.