New semester. New projects. More open source

So I have got thought Open Source Development I course in Seneca College successfully.

Now I am one of not many brave people who are taking Open Source Development II. 

This course is a bit more different in terms of work load. In previous semester I have completed 2 releases (in other words: my professor marked 2 sets of issues I have attempted to fix on GitHub). And this semester I have bi-weekly releases, which means 7 releases. 

I am not excited to be overwhelmed during my last semester in school and I am not a fan of spoiling my transcript, so I need a plan.

First of all, as our professor has advised, the best way is to stick to one project. Originally I wanted to work in Golang on Golang☺. 

But after several attempts to sell it to my classmates, I was sold on contributing to VS Code. This open source editor is quite popular these days. I even wrote an article about using it and some other IDEs a while ago. A lot of people with whom I work/study are using it daily. This is a perfect opportunity to become involved in a large project that affects me and people I know directly.

So I decided to contribute as both developer and translator. I remember the struggle I had with English version of Visual Studio, when I was about 12-13 years old and was confused not only but English, but also by programming in general. So I hope other kids/people in Ukraine and Russia will have more comfort and I want to help! So while I was installing dependencies for vscode project, I found an instruction on how I can contribute to translations.

I even had a chance to translate and rate a few dozens of lines and strings while waiting for all the dependencies to load.
Setting up vs code at my personal computer was a piece of cake, I followed instructions in the vscode Github repository and everything just worked!

My professor suggested not to stress ourselves out and pick some small "good-first-bug" just to get involved. So that was exactly what I did. I picked this "please remove" bug. It was quite an easy fix: Ctrl+F, Delete. I have submitted pull request and to my surprise one of the tests was failing!

  3827 passing (30s)

  1 failing




  1) FileService "before each" hook for "moveFile - MIX CASE":

     Error: timeout of 2000ms exceeded. Ensure the done() callback is being called in this test.



The command "if [[ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" == "linux" ]]; then ./scripts/test.sh --coverage --reporter dot; else ./scripts/test.sh --reporter dot; fi" exited with 1.

I was confused... That error was not even related to my fix, so I asked for help.

It was on Saturday, so I didn't expect to get the response until Monday. And the first thing I saw in the morning on Monday was an email from GitHub. My PR got merged and it will be shipped with Visual Studio Code for their January 2018 release! I was happy about how not painful this time my experience was. And that was the test that had some issues.

So my first release is done in this semester!