1.
Contributing to
GNOME-Music
JACKSON ISAAC
S4 B.TECH CSE
AMRITA VISHWA VIDYAPEETHAM, INDIA

2.
About GNOME 3.10

3.
About gnome-music
 GNOME’s own built-in Music Application.
 Written in Python3 using GTK+
 Released in August 2013.
 Current release version 3.10.2

4.
Music’s source code
 Source Code is the collection of the files containing the instructions for the
application.
 Source code contains more than Thousands of lines of code, and are
divided according to the functions it carries out in the application.
 We use version control system for software development.

5.
Which project to select ?
 Complete beginners: Established projects like Mozilla Firefox, KDE.
 Intermediate/ Experienced Programmers: New projects like GNOME-Music
and Linux kernel (Skilled coders).
 Non-programmers: Wikimedia and other project’s
documentation, designing, etc.

6.
Building the Source Code
 Developers use jhbuild, it creates a separate environment inside your OS
and builds the latest repositories directly from source.
 Some projects like Mozilla use mach build.
 Smaller projects can be directly compiled and tested.

7.
Selecting your first bug
 Bugs are divided as
•
•
•
•
•
low-hanging fruits (github), in general trivial or easy bugs.
Enhancements.
Major bugs.
Critical.
Blocker.
 Each bug has STR (Steps to reproduce) and description about it.
 Select a bug which interests you and one that you understand.
 Contact mentors and start trying out methods to fix the bug.

8.
Communicating with other
Developers
 IRC, Xchat, IRCcloud.com, Mibbit
 IRC Channel: #gnome-music on irc.gnome.org / GIMPNet (irc.gimp.org)
 #gnome-love, #gnome-hackers, #gtk+

9.
Create and Test Patch
 Changes made in the local codebase that are ready to be pushed to the git
repo.
 Steps to Create patch:





Make appropriate changes to the code.
Test the code for regressions.
Commit the changes.
Push it to forked repo.
Pull Request.

10.
Resources
 https://wiki.gnome.org/NewcomersTutorial
 https://github.com/gnome-prototypes-team/gnome-music
 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-music/
 https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/JhbuildIntroduction

11.
Projects Worked on
 GNOME-Music
 Mozilla Firefox Web-browser
 Android app development
 Firefox OS

12.
advantages

13.
Contact
 Blog: www.jacksonisaac.wordpress.com
 Email: jacksonisaac2008@gmail.com
 Twitter/JacksonI1994
 LinkedIn/JacksonIsaac
 github.com/jacksonisaac
 Mozillian/ www.mozillians.org/en-US/u/jacksonisaac2008/