Hello Dave,

My name is Milan Vavra.

Thank you for replying.

This is another step on my quest to figure out how to contribute to Squeak.

I had a fix for the 'order by filename' in Squeak.

I did not know how to contribute it, so...

I have registered my developer initials mva on SqueakMap
http://map.squeak.org/accountbyid/92d7a8f5-9d00-4951-8d19-0c0ae0b8a3f3
So mva should not conflict with anyone else contriubuting to Squeak.
Something went wrong and I can not log in to SqueakMap but the initials
got registered.

I googled in on
https://squeakboard.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/a-new-community-development-model/
which seems to suggest that Inbox is open for contributions.

I have been looking at what is happening in the
squeak-dev list on Nabble
http://forum.world.st/Squeak-Dev-f45488.html
or in the archives
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/
.

Then I noticed that under what seemed like automatically generated posts
posts from commits-2 like this one on Nabble

http://forum.world.st/The-Inbox-Multilingual-jr-218-mcz-td4929936.html
or in the archives
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2017-January/192888.html
there were responses from real people.

Then there was this post on Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26445182/how-to-check-out-test-code-in-squeak-for-the-inbox
where Bert Freudenberg mentioned the Inbox again.

Then I found Bert's video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QKmfI4taGo
on contributing to etoys.

Then I thought: "lets's give it a try and see what happens".

So I took the latest Squeak 5.1 release
http://files.squeak.org/5.1/Squeak5.1-16548-32bit/Squeak5.1-16548-32bit-All-in-One.zip
and looked for the latest version of the package I had a fix for -
Monticello - in the repository
http://source.squeak.org/squeak51
to see if there were any more recent versions.

It turned out Monticello-mt.647 is the latest version there.

So I applied my fix for the 'order by filename', saved my version
of the package as Monticello-mva.648 then copied it into
MCHttpRepository
	location: 'http://source.squeak.org/inbox'
	user: ''
	password: ''
.

Then I saw this automatically generated the
http://forum.world.st/The-Inbox-Monticello-mva-648-mcz-td4932946.html
or
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2017-February/193017.html
post on squeak-dev.

Then I saw you reply.

You said you have moved my package to 'treated inbox'.

So I went on looking for that and I can see my package in
http://source.squeak.org/treated.html
.


I can see that in
http://source.squeak.org/trunk
there is now the Monticello-dtl.660 version that incorporates my fix.

And finally, I can see the fix merged on Nabble
http://forum.world.st/The-Trunk-Monticello-dtl-660-mcz-td4932981.html
or in the archives
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2017-February/193016.html
.

...so I guess when I have a fix and/or enhancement I want to contribute:

- I can Save and/or Copy a fixed version of the package in 'inbox' and
in the log message describe what I have changed and why,
- I can use my author initials 'mva' from SqueakMap
(and/or should I use my email address in the log message instead?)
- some developer will take a look like you just did and
- if my contribution is considered useful,
it will be moved from 'inbox' into 'treated' and merged into 'trunk'.
- if discussion is needed, there will be replies from humans
to the automatically generated post in squeak-dev.

Best Regards,

Milan Vavra





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