Bonus

Bonus

1 supplementary point on the final grade of the course can be obtained for contributions improving the course material (practicals, Readme, etc.).

Bonus conditions

• only .5 point is given for a contribution,
• only the first contribution proposed on a theme is rewarded (no point given for followers!),
• documented pull-requests (PR) are expected : details are expected to help judging what the proposition improves/corrects,
• for typos at least 5 corrections are expected to receive .5 point. The corrections should be gathered in a single PR.
• each student can only get 1 point (maximum) through bonuses.

Pull Request (PR)

The pull request system is a standard way of proposing improvement and modifications in open source project. Here we use it for the opportunity to improve the course material.

The principle is the following

• Fork: Connect to your Github account (see [(tp.md]../Git/tp.md) for details) and fork the repository by clicking on the "Fork" icon:

• Go to on your Github account and find the HMMA238 repository. In what follows you should substitute my_github_id by your github identification; in the screenshots the examples are with my_github_id=josephsalmon and they should be adapted according to yours. The url is hence https://github.com/my_github_id/HMMA238.

• Get the cloning repository by clicking the "clone" button and choose either the https or ssh protocol (the later being recommended to avoid typing your password at each git pull/push): .

• Clone the repository on your local machine. On Linux this consists in typing the following line in a terminal:

$ git clone git@github.com:my_github_id/HMMA238.git

• Adding a remote : you need to configure a remote that points to the upstream repository. Before you can sync your fork with an upstream repository, you must do this step

git remote add upstream https://github.com/bcharlier/HMMA238.git

• you can check the remote available (yours and the class one) by typing:

$ git remote -v

• Create a new branch for instance called improving_git, and move to it

$ git checkout -b improving_git

• Make local edit on some of the files in the project, and then commit and push the new branch improving_git:

$ git commit -am "I edited some typos"
$ git push --set-upstream origin improving_git

• Create Pull Request: go back in your browser to https://github.com/my_github_id/HMMA238 and click on Pull Request.

• To keep your fork up to date / sync:

$ git fetch upstream

• To come back to the master branch:

$ git checkout master

• To merge the upstream version (the one you see at https://github.com/bcharlier/HMMA238.git)

$ git pull upstream master

Additional material

• for PR: https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork and https://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Pull-Request-on-Github

• for synchronization of your fork with the (course) master: https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/syncing-a-fork