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Re: Outreachy current



On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 10:51:57PM +0000, Saira Hussain wrote:
> > OK, seems to be close enough for non-delayed communication. ;-) 
> 
> Awesome!

:-)  
 
> That's is very useful indeed. The problem I have till this day with the Debian documentation is that albeit very detailed
> it's vast!! I never know where to search (and yes I am starting with Google) but it seems there's always a more recent/updated/better
> version somewhere, where I didn't look.

I fully agree with you that it is really hard to assemble the right
pieces of documentation.  I'm absolutely not proud about the
documentation we have and agree that its a challenge to fight the way
through.  Sorry for that.
 
> Oh right. When we did dev work before for some Uni projects we were always creating
> an extra branched that was automatically deleted when the merged was performed (and squashed).

I'm afraid something went wrong with the merge request.  I didn't got
any information about a merge request but rather a new branch right in
the glam2 repository.  I've subscribed the commit list (for historical
reasons - probably no modern way to deal with Gitlab) and got these
mails: 

    https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/debian-med-commit/2019-March/090936.html
    https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/debian-med-commit/2019-March/090937.html

Since you expected the branch to be deleted after merging I did so now.
 
> I suppose your proposal sounds good. Is there any standard that you're following or personal 
> experience?

Just commit to master.  That's fine.  Usually our repositories have three
branches

    master: upstream + debian/ packaging dir
    upstream: upstream source as found in imported tarballs
    pristine-tar: metainformation to recreate upstream tarball

This is in line with the git-buildpackage layout (see also Debian Med
Group policy[1])
 
> > I found out that your second command line was lacking the alphabet 
> > option (which I found out quickly by running run-unit-test on my local 
> > system after sneaking a "set -x" in).  The program runs if I set 'p' for 
> > proteins as alphabet - please confirm that this is correct. 
> >
> Yes, indeed forgot to add this! Thanks :) 

You are welcome.  I hope 'p' is correct (and not 'n').  
 
> Thanks for quick help and ideas

You are welcome.  I try to be quick in general to keep your motivation
high. :-)

I've just uploaded your changes which means you now have a first Debian
archive with your name in the archive and fixed your first bug.
Congratulations. :-)

Kind regards

        Andreas.

PS: I've checked your mails in the web archive where these are looking
nicely formatted.  However, I'm working with mutt which does only text
mode and there your mails are looking quite strangely formatted.  In
case your mail client (probably web based) enables sending plain text
mails this would be more convenient.

[1] https://med-team.pages.debian.net/policy/#common-git-repository-structures

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