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Sun Oct 13 21:08:36 UTC 2013

Hi Carol,

I wanted to know if I can send a request to change the thing that I was
stuck on (changing the directory to oh-mainline directory) in the
installation doc.If so, please let me know the underlying procedure to do
so.

Thanks,
Gaurav

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Carol Willing <
willingc at willingconsulting.com> wrote:

>  Hi Gaurav,
>
> I guess there are two basic ways to get involved in documentation as a a
> starting point for contribution: helping on OpenHatch documentation or
> helping on one of the projects that shares their development needs with
> OpenHatch.
>
> To help on OpenHatch's documentation, Asheesh, Britta, Shauna, and others
> would be able to give you insights on which areas could use document
> revisions or additions. Please feel free to make additional improvements to
> the installation doc since it is still fresh in your mind.
>
> Alternatively, there are other projects listed on the OpenHatch site (
> https://openhatch.org/search/ ) that have a need for documentation help.
>
> I hope this helps :)
>
> Carol
>
>
> On 10/11/13 11:55 PM, GAURAV Agrawal wrote:
>
> Please let me know, if there are any more projects through which I can
> help with their documentation because I think starting with contributing to
> documentation will be good towards contributing to open source.
>
>  Thanks
> Gaurav
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 11:58 AM, GAURAV Agrawal <
> gauravagrawal03jan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Asheesh ,well Carol has already made the necessary changes,so I will try
>> and help to improve the doc in some other way:)
>>
>> For that,Asheesh and Carol, I wanted to know that since now as the
>> website successfully ran on my system,how should I further help to improve
>> the documentation....
>> Please let me know
>>
>>  Thanks
>>
>>  Gaurav
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Carol Willing <
>> willingc at willingconsulting.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Gaurav and Asheesh, I did edit installation.rst within
>>> oh-mainline/docs/deployment and sent a a pull request.
>>>
>>> Gaurav, If you want to make more changes to the doc to help others, I
>>> would be happy to answer any questions that you may come up (or point you
>>> to someone who can answer them) :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/11/13 5:44 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>>>
>>> Gaurav, it's helpful to reply to the list so others can help out too.
>>> Carol, thanks for closing the loop!
>>>
>>>  Mostly for Carol: if you want to improve these docs, it's worth
>>> knowing that these docs are part of the oh-mainline repository, within the
>>> "docs/" directory. So a pull request, rather than a wiki edit, will be the
>>> way to improve them.
>>>
>>>  ...then again... Gaurav -- are you willing to do that, and make it
>>> your first contribution? (-:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Carol Willing <
>>> willingc at willingconsulting.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hi Gaurav,
>>>>
>>>> I'm glad that helped. I'm going to update the wiki to make it more
>>>> clear; the changing directory step doesn't really jump out. I missed that
>>>> step my first time too.
>>>>
>>>> Welcome to OpenHatch, and happy coding :)
>>>>
>>>> Carol
>>>>
>>>> On 10/11/13 6:50 AM, GAURAV Agrawal wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Hi Carol,
>>>>
>>>>  I got my problem solved following your instructions.I was making the
>>>> error of not changing directory into oh-mainline directory and also I found
>>>> the file manage.py in the directory .
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks, Thank you so much,
>>>>
>>>>  Gaurav
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Carol Willing <
>>>> willingc at willingconsulting.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Hi Gaurav,
>>>>>
>>>>> Let's see if we can get you past this error...
>>>>>
>>>>> First, please check if you changed into the oh-mainline directory
>>>>> before entering the command (last step in
>>>>> http://openhatch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ of the section "Open up a
>>>>> command prompt").
>>>>>
>>>>>     Make sure you have changed directory into the oh-mainline
>>>>> directory before you run the rest of the commands.
>>>>>
>>>>> [A quick command line refresher: Use pwd command to get present
>>>>> working directory. cd command allows one to change directory. ls command
>>>>> gives a list of files and directories]
>>>>>
>>>>> Second, please check (using the ls command) if the file manage.py
>>>>> exists in the directory.
>>>>>
>>>>> If the file exists, trying running the following command again:
>>>>>
>>>>> python manage.py syncdb --noinput
>>>>>
>>>>> Please let me know if this solves your error.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Carol
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/11/13 6:14 AM, GAURAV Agrawal wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>    Hi
>>>>>
>>>>>  I tried to get the code but encountered some problems
>>>>>  In the web page - http://openhatch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ , in
>>>>> the installation part,I executed the command written in the "Get the code"
>>>>> section in my Ubuntu command prompt which downloaded a few files on my PC
>>>>> and then further when I executed the command given to "Set up the database"
>>>>> in step 1,it showed me an error-
>>>>>
>>>>>               python: can't open file 'manage.py': [Errno 2] No such
>>>>> file or directory
>>>>>
>>>>>  I am stuck on this and am not able to go further.Please suggest me a
>>>>> solution to this.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Gaurav
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Asheesh Laroia <lists at asheesh.org>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Gaurav! That's great to hear.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  To get a general sense of what open source development can be like,
>>>>>> I recommend visiting https://openhatch.org/missions/ and doing the
>>>>>> diffpatch and git training missions. Those can be useful for understand the
>>>>>> general workflow.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  If you want to help on the OpenHatch website app, and we'd love to
>>>>>> have you, first visit http://openhatch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ and
>>>>>> click on "Installation" and let us know if you have any problems getting it
>>>>>> going on your computer. If you get it going just fine, then also let us
>>>>>> know that!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Asheesh.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:57 PM, GAURAV Agrawal <
>>>>>> gauravagrawal03jan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Hi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  I am a novice in the field of contributing to open source.I have
>>>>>>> recently learnt Python and willing to apply my knowledge to some useful
>>>>>>> thing.
>>>>>>> If anyone could direct me how to solve some bugs and the procedures
>>>>>>> related,it would be of great help.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Thanks.
>>>>>>>
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