[Freemint-list] Source for Russian keyboard table - corrected

Dima Sobolev avtandil33 at gmail.com
Fri May 19 15:41:16 MSD 2017


Dear Vincent,

Friday, May 19, 2017, 2:32:56 PM, you wrote:



> On 19/05/2017 at 13:11, Dima Sobolev wrote:
>> Yes, I didn't see it. And now I couldn't find it as well.

> I must agree with you. This is impossible to find for newcomers.

> When there is some activity on the Pull Request, you get a notification
> email. At the end, there is a link "view it on GitHub". It is the 
> starting point. For example :
> https://github.com/freemint/freemint/pull/38

> In the middle of the page, there are some green icons such as "All 
> checks have passed", etc.
> Just above, you can see a comment (or a reply?) saying:
> "mikrosk pushed a commit to freemint/travis-pr that referenced this pull
> request"

> The user will always be "mikrosk", as Travis automatic builds runs on 
> his account.

> Just after, there is a small text:
> [freemint/freemint] Download:
> https://github.com/freemint/travis-pr/t...

> You must click on the incomplete URL just after "Download:"
> Then you finally arrive to the binaries freshly built with your Pull 
> Request.

> Great feature, but very bad ergonomics.

> BTW, I second what MiKRO said: Pull Requests just mean "please integrate
> this into official sources". You can advertise your work by pointing 
> other people to your Pull Request binaries (link found above) and 
> saying: look, it works fine! So popular pressure will increase the 
> probability that your Pull Request is accepted by a maintainer (Alan) 
> and integrated into official sources. And after that, Travis CI will 
> once again trigger a build to make new official sources available to 
> everyone at official places.

many thanks for your -very- detailed explanation!

All  of  us were newcomers some days/years ago, but - sometimes with the help
of the friends - became systems monsters now ;-)


Best regards,
 Dima                            mailto:avtandil33 at gmail.com



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