Getting started¶

• Table of contents
• Getting started
  • Redmine
  • Git
  • Gitorious
    • Setup account
    • quassel clone
    • ssh key
    • ssh agent
  • Workflow

This guide guide describes how you get involved as new developer. If you only want to contribute patches you can checkout following guide
Creating_Translation_git_patches

Redmine¶

No source code change without an issue. Quassel project manages bugs and features with the redmine plattform. To get open issue (bug or feature) assigned, you have to setup account here on http://bugs.quassel-irc.org.

register here

Please choose a nick is identical or similar to your irc nick.

Git¶

Install git on your operation system. And configure it.

git config --global user.name "First name and last name" 
git config --global user.email registered@email.example.com

Optional you can switch colorful output on.

git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.status auto
git config --global color.branch auto

Gitorious¶

Setup account¶

register here

Please choose a nick is identical or similar to your irc nick.

quassel clone¶

Setup your personal clone of quassel. Go to http://gitorious.org/quassel/quassel/clone and choose a name like yournicks-quassel.

Now you can clone it to your local machine

git clone git://gitorious.org/~yournick/quassel/yournicks-quassel.git

ssh key¶

To push changes you will need a SSH key pair. To generate it on linux type the command:

ssh-keygen -t rsa

On Windows you can check the official faq for a solution.

After following instructions, you should now have a private key like id_dsa and public key id_dsa.pub in your ~/.ssh/. Upload the public key in your gitorious account options. http://gitorious.org/~yournick/keys/new

ssh agent¶

TODO

Workflow¶

TODO