Week 7
Updates on what I have done so far with freeCodeCamp
It turns out that the three issues I identified in the previous week’s blog post (see here) have been taken/resolved by other people already. In the future, I should select issues that are given less attention so that I have a chance to make a contribution.
I have also found another issue that I think I can contribute to - “Allow username display to be case-insensitive” (here). I searched for the files in which the changes needed to be made, and messed around with them on my local machine. Unfortunately, I saw no changes in the username display after I made the modifications. I am planning on discussing this issue with my team, so that we can work on it together and hopefully make some progress.
Summary of course-related activity
Friday, March 8
Each team in the class gave a brief description of the state their project is in, and then we learned about a common GitHub workflow. We then formed teams in class and did a team-based GitHub activity (GitHub Workflow 01).
Tuesday, March 12
Patrick Masson (General Manager of the Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative, or OSI) gave a presentation on Working in Open Source. There was also a Q&A about working in open source afterwards.
Contributions
None this week.