[vtk-developers] New to VTK; wanting to contribute by fixing a bug

[David Partyka]

Add David Doria as a reviewer when you do since he submitted the bug ;-)

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:24 PM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Perry Spyropoulos <
> paspyrop at edisto.cofc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My name is Perry and I'm an undergraduate at the College of Charleston.
>> For our Software Engineering Practicum class, we have been tasked with
>> finding an OpenSource project, learning the code, and attempting to
>> contribute.  My team and I are hoping to contribute to VTK.
>>
>> We browsed the Mantis BugTracker, and found a bug to work on as our first
>> contribution (bug webpage:
>> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=10854).
>>
>> The VTK wiki was helpful by providing various requirements for
>> contribution, however, we still have a few questions about the code
>> submission process.  Once we've modified the source code, do we just do a
>> cvs commit to the repository?  Is that considered a true submission, or
>> rather a developers playground?
>>
>> If anyone could give us a step-by-step process for submission, or a link
>> to something similar, that would be much appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Perry
>>
>>
> You should push the change to Gerrit. Here are some instructions:
>
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/ITK/Gerrit
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/ITK/Gerrit/Primer
>
> Those instructions are for ITK, but I believe you just need to change an
> "I" to a "V" since you are working on VTK.
>
> Once you push to Gerrit, you need to add "Reviewers" to look over the code.
>
> David
>
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