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Hahaha oh no I feel guilty again-- I've been intending for forever to help out on the ovarit codebase; when I first joined the site it wasn't possible to sort comments by 'new' and it annoyed me so much I figured I ought to add the feature myself. I was excited to encounter one of those fabled features that you want to add so much that you join a project just to add it! Normally that's a bit of a fiction and people are paid to work on free software by companies, but this was it, the real thing! I felt like such a nerd, it was great.
So I got the db and site set up locally, and then an excellent ovarit dev added the feature before I got round to it, and I am ashamed to say I haven't touched the repo since because the site works fine for my purposes lol. :D
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Thank you so much for your work /u/steady_ember. We are all in yoru debt! 👏
This is just incredible. Thank you so much. I too was one of those wanting to give it a go but not sure where to start.
Thanks for this! I've updated our post about contributing (linked below).
We're not the best at marking when stuff in our Gitlab is already being worked on by someone, so if anyone wants to contribute, I encourage you to get in touch with me and get in our development Discord (chat) server!
https://ovarit.com/o/Ovarit/9143/ovarit-runs-on-open-source-software-interested-in-contributing
Hey all, I made a video walkthrough of working on the codebase for Ovarit's upstream project Throat.
My intention with making this video is to help others get started with contributing to the project by giving a demonstration. I hear a lot of women say that they are interested in helping with the code but some are unsure how to get started. So I just wanted to walk through the set up of the project and development of a new feature, show my process and encourage you to jump in with both feet!
The video ended up being quite long. I want people to be able to jump in and get something out of it even if you don't have two hours to dedicate, so I've gone through and added timestamp references and even tags for parts of the video that have to do with different topics.
The best thing about the Reddit ban was that it's causing more of us to think about how to build and maintain our own platforms! We have the skills, we have the tools, we don't need Reddit! I'm proud of and grateful for what we've accomplished working together with the Throat devs, I'm so motivated for us to be able to hold this space and keep the conversation going about issues that affect us in our lives. I hope this video helps someone out with your goals!
And Happy New Year!! 🎉 I'm so glad we're leaving 2020 in the dust! :)