[Biojava-dev] how to contribute via github

[Andreas Prlic]

Hi Michael,

I think the bottom line is, there might be more than one way of doing this
with git. If in doubt, I'd suggest fork the devel branch to your own
account and play around there.  Once you are confident that you modified
your own fork according to your wishes, you can push those changes back to
the main project (devel branch).

Does that make sense?

Andreas


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Michael Heuer <heuermh at gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> I have a few things that need doing and am looking for advice on how
> best to proceed:
>
>  - update guava dependency from version 11.0.1 --> version 14.0, needs
> to happen in both biojava & biojava-legacy repos
>
>  - add new functionality to biojava-sequencing module in
> biojava-legacy and biojava3-sequencing module in biojava
>
>  - prepare poms in biojava-legacy for next release (some of which
> might also be applicable to biojava)
>
>
> In contributor role:
>
> 1) create an issue on biojava/biojava
> 2) create a feature branch on my fork heuermh/biojava
> 3) commit changes to feature branch on heuermh/biojava
> 4) push changes to feature branch on heuermh/biojava to github
> 5) issue pull request on biojava/biojava referring to issue #
>
> In developer role:
>
> 5) clone devel branch of biojava/biojava
> 6) merge pull request to devel branch of biojava/biojava locally
> 7) push merged changes to devel branch of biojava/biojava back to github
> 8) mark issue as closed
>
> Back in contributor role:
>
> ?  delete feature branch
> ?  fetch/rebase/pull from upstream to fork
>
>
> I'm still fuzzy on some of these, e.g. the feature branch on my fork
> should branch off devel not off the default.  What about feature
> branches on biojava/biojava?
>
> I have tried to follow this before
>
>
> http://gatkforums.broadinstitute.org/discussion/2129/gatk-development-process-and-coding-standards
>
> but I get lost.  It appears that they are not using forks?
>
>    michael
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