WedgeSparda wrote:Hi, evilhero. First of all, thank you so much for Mylar. Is a great tool.
I've been using Mylar for almost a month and I found some bugs, but tool is great despite of that. I'm a developer from Spain and couldn't help to get the source code and try to fix a annoying bug I found (and reported
here) and even created a
PR for that.
But I would like to know if there is a more efficient way to help you on development. I'm new with Python (I have worked with several web languages and now I'm working as an iOS dev) but I would like to contribute in some way to the development of Mylar.
So, do you need any help? Is there any tasks on your development roadmap that you can delegate to others?
Thanks.
First, thanks for the comps. Second, thanks for the PR again
The only reason thus far why it hasn't been merged into development is basically just me and my free time. I merge the PR's into my local repo, and do testing and then when I'm confident that it's working I push out the PR to the dev branch for more testing by everyone. I think with story arcs I tend to be really careful, just because of how intricate alot of the linking is. While it seems the PR you did doesn't break anything, in the back of my head I know there was a reason why I was using that particular field for mapping that data (aside from the same issue appearing in more than one arc, which I don't think is even an issue with the ArcID being used as the key).
And of course I need help
Its just been mainly me coding Mylar aside from a few awesome people doing PR requests to help fill the void that I couldn't get to (usually in a timely manner, but nonetheless they helped!).
One thing I've always said I needed help with is the graphical part - I have literally very basic knowledge of html/css and especially ajax. I get things working, but it takes me awhile to figure things out in some cases. So updating the existing theme, or even new themes (I know that this would be really difficult given how much reliance there is on the current theme with variable names being included within, but taking them out and making it a more generic-type of default template would help as well). I've always wanted to have a bookshelf type of view on the main page for loading images along with some really basic stats, instead of the data-table view that occurs now. I just could never figure out how to do a bookshelf view, while utilizing data-tables (which is probably part of the problem I realize).
Aside from that, if there's something you'd like done - a feature that you'd like or enhancement, the best bet is to inquire about the status of it (if it's being done or not, or contemplated), and then I would make sure not to do anything that would interfere with that while the PR was being done kinda thing.
I'm usually very open to adding PR's. As long as they don't break any existing functionality within Mylar, or make it take steps backwards when there's no reason to not go forward, they usually get merged. Again the merger depends alot on my free time.
Ask away though - I'd love for nothing more than to open up the repo for more than just me to be the manager of said repo and thereby share the workload, but unfortunately there hasn't been anyone that has provided the PR's that would be able to support that kind of workload (which again, is probably due to the PR problem).
Thanks for offering / helping