Open Source: Release 04

Internal: For the internal project I chose to work on creating some templates for a GitHub project, if you want to read about creating GitHub templates you can do so here on GitHub documentation pages. The Issue: Create GitHub templates for pull requests and issues This issue was split between myself and one other classmate

SPO600: Project Stage 1 Project Selection and Build

Finding an Open Source Software Package I honestly had no idea where to begin with this project, it was very daunting in the beginning and I wasn’t sure where to start to look for a package to work on, but eventually after talking with a classmate for what he had chosen and how he got

Open Source: Release 03 Contribution

For this release in my open source class I needed to complete at least 2 pull request, one on an external project and one on an internal project that was recently started by the open source department at Seneca. For more details you can read about it here in my Release 03 intro post. Internal

Open Source: Release 03 Choices

For my open source class release three we are to contribute to an external and internal project. My schools open source community uses a planet feed to aggregate all blogs written by students, faculty and others into a single place. However the planet we use now is dying and hasn’t been updated in 13 years.

Algorithm Selection

In my fourth lab for my SPO class I needed to investigate and analyze the impact of different algorithms which produce the same effect. In this lab we will analyze a basic sound scale program. To change volume, each sample can be scaled by a volume factor, in the rage of 0.00(silence) to 1.00 (full

Hacktoberfest Recap

Hacktoberfest has come to an end and I finish all 4 of my pull requests, but there was definitely some ups and downs. I think in the beginning I was overthinking everything and I ended up just looking and looking at different issues and project instead of just finding an issue and working on it.

Open Source: Release 02 Beat me to it

In this pull request for Hocktoberfest I contributed to a small android app project Travel-Mate. For this issue I needed to update the world clock UI page The Issue: Improve world clock home page UI This issue I needed to update the UI page for the world clock. Unfortunately, I was a bit behind this

Open Source: Release 02 Update project consistency

In this pull request for Hocktoberfest I contributed to a small android app project Travel-Mate. For this issue I needed to update a file to use butter-knife to keep the same coding techniques through out the project. The Issue: [ENHANCEMENT] Replace “findViewById” by “@BindView” This issue is to conform the project so that every file

Open Source: Release 02 Feature Request

In this pull request for Hocktoberfest I contributed to a small android app project InTalks. For this issue the project author wanted the search var to be added to the main page and results displayed in the second activity. The Issue: Add the search box to the First Activity and display results on the second

Open Source: Release 02

To start off Hactober Fest as my starting point for contributing in open source, I begun by going down such a deep rabbit hole of repositories, different organizations and projects that I have a personal interest in to the point it was actually a bit overwhelming trying to think of where and how to begin.