[p2pu-dev] Getting Involved

Alison Cole alison at p2pu.org
Thu Apr 12 14:42:55 UTC 2012 

I'd love to see a virtual tour screencast available.. and perhaps offer a
session once a month where you can invite people to ask questions and
discuss in real time?

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com> wrote:

> If someone wanted to put together a virtual machine with Lernanta (could
> be a minimal one with no GUI, just use it to run Lernanta in a VM, and use
> the browser in your ordinary OS to connect etc). I had Lernanta working
> once, but then I changed computers or upgraded the OS, and now it doesn't
> work. I spent a few hours trying to get it to work, but no dice. I'm sure
> it's not that hard, and if I sat down with Zuzel for half an hour, she
> could help me get it to work. For the minimal stuff I want to do with it
> (primarily check out translation files, but there could be other stuff in
> the future) it might not be worth it, but I'm sure there are many others
> out there... It really shouldn't take that long to just throw a minimal
> Debian in a VM, do all the configs to get Lernanta up and running, zip the
> VM and upload it somewhere. (The VM doesn't have to be kept up to date with
> Lernanta, people downloading it can just git pull the latest version, as
> long as all the libs are set up properly etc).
>
> For involved developers this is probably of no use, but for people who
> just want to check it out and play with it, I think it would make things a
> lot easier, especially for people not used to Python development, setting
> up environments etc.
>
> (Great junior task)
>
> Stian
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 16:14, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:
>
>> A few tips that may help anyone trying to get started with the lernanta
>> codebase:
>>
>> $ apt-get install graphviz graphviz-dev
>>
>> In your development environment (iow after you issued "workon lernanta")
>> run:
>>
>> $ pip install django-extensions
>> $ pip install Werkzeug
>> $ pip install pygraphviz
>>
>> You can then run the debug server using
>>
>> $ python manage.py runserver_plus
>>
>> This gives you the werkzeug debugger! You can now do things like put
>> "raise Exception()" in a view function and then use the interactive
>> debugger in your browser to see what happened up until that point!
>>
>> Another useful command is:
>>
>> $ ./manage.py graph_models -a -g -o my_project_visualized.png
>>
>> which gives you a diagram of all the models!
>>
>> Hope that helps a little
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dirk
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Corbin Tarrant <Corbin at iamcorbin.net>wrote:
>>
>>> I agree that a screencast overview of the code would be really helpful
>>> for getting started.
>>>
>>> The Q&A is another good idea and I think that would work well added to
>>> the git wiki: https://github.com/p2pu/**lernanta/wiki/<https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta/wiki/>
>>>
>>> I'm excited to get involved, thanks for the responses everyone. I've
>>> used open source software for years but I'm just getting started learning
>>> how to help out and contribute and it's good to know there are people here
>>> to help.
>>>
>>> ------------------------
>>> Corbin Tarrant
>>> Corbin at iamcorbin.net
>>> http://iamcorbin.net
>>> ------------------------
>>>
>>> On Tue 03 Apr 2012 12:15:49 PM EDT, Ricardo Soares wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I'm also a newbie on contributing to Lernanta. At the moment I'm trying
>>>> to help José developing the lernanta API, and I think a screencast overview
>>>> of Lernanta would be awesome.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:58 PM, zuzel.vp <zuzel.vp at gmail.com <mailto:
>>>> zuzel.vp at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    Just replied at
>>>>    http://lists.p2pu.org/**pipermail/p2pu-dev/2012-April/**002566.html<http://lists.p2pu.org/pipermail/p2pu-dev/2012-April/002566.html>
>>>>
>>>>    On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Corbin Tarrant
>>>>    <Corbin at iamcorbin.net <mailto:Corbin at iamcorbin.net>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        Hello Everyone,
>>>>
>>>>        I am still trying to get involved but am having a hard time
>>>>        getting started. I have a dev environment setup and have
>>>>        forked the github code. I posted before about not being able
>>>>        to edit courses or create anything other than the dummy
>>>>        content created with: python manage.py loaddata
>>>>        apps/badges/fixtures/test_**challenges_with_bagdes.json
>>>>
>>>>        That aside, I'm trying to look over the code and get an
>>>>        understanding of how everything works together but I'm new to
>>>>        django as well and have only gone through the beginner
>>>>        tutorial. There is quite a bit more complexity to the lernanta
>>>>        app then the demo app created in the django tutorial and I was
>>>>        wondering if someone could help me better understand how
>>>>        everything is structured. I'm basically looking for a tour of
>>>>        the code and some guidance on learning more.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        ------------------------
>>>>        Corbin Tarrant
>>>>        Corbin at iamcorbin.net  <mailto:Corbin at iamcorbin.net>
>>>>
>>>>        http://iamcorbin.net
>>>>        ------------------------
>>>>
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>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Ricardo Soares
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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