Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to contribute to GNU Radio in 5 mins or less per day!

[Martin Braun]

Murray,

the OAuth+github login doesn't work yet. We're aware of that, but don't
have the expertise to fix it right now. Advice welcome!

-- M

On 03/20/2017 05:05 AM, Murray Thomson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to login with github but it didn't work. I've created an account
> now but you might want to have a look at that.
> 
> Cheers,
> Murray
> 
> On 20 March 2017 at 05:54, Martin Braun <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     You know those fake diet ads? Well, this is legit:
> 
>     Have you ever thought, hey, I'd like to contribute to GNU Radio, but I
>     really don't have a lot of time? What if you could contribute in only a
>     few minutes per day, week, or month? Well, you can!
> 
>     As you know, we've recently moved our wiki to https://wiki.gnuradio.org.
>     During the move, two not-so-good thing occurred:
> 
>     1) Some of the autoimported pages from Redmine were borked during the
>     import. The conversion from Textile to MediaWiki format wasn't flawless.
>     In some cases, only small things went wrong. In others, entire sections
>     no longer made sense.
> 
>     2) We realized (again) that there's still a lot of cruft on our wiki. A
>     lot of pages were culled during the move (on purpose), but sometimes
>     it's small subsections of pages that are now out-of-date.
> 
>     The solution to both of these problems is: We need people to look at it.
>     But, per page, that can be done in only a few minutes.
> 
>     So, here's my suggestion: How about YOU, dear potential contributor,
>     make this your start page:
> 
>     https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/Special:Random
>     <https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/Special:Random>
> 
>     Or find some other way to randomly check out a wiki page. There's even a
>     hotkey: Alt-Shift-x.
> 
>     With many eyes, this is an easily solvable issue.
> 
>     Now, when browsing pages, these are things to watch out for:
> 
>     - Were HTML entities translated where they shouldn't? E.g., do you see
>     code like this: d_foo-&gt;method(), which should read d_foo->method() ?
>     - Does it make sense to rename the page? Redmine used page titles as
>     IDs, whereas MediaWiki actually uses the page title as the page title.
>     - Is syntax highlighting working properly? This page, for example, took
>     a lot of manual labour to fix:
>     https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/Guided_Tutorial_GNU_Radio_in_C++
>     <https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/Guided_Tutorial_GNU_Radio_in_C++>
>     (and everytime I go back, I find more issues...)
>     - Is the content actually accurate?
> 
>     Thanks everyone!
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Martin
> 
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