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From YouTube: She Code Africa contributhon sync-up. April 26, 2021

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At this session we discussed the closedown week of the contributhon: prioritizing completion of pending pull requests, the upcoming retrospective and the summary blogpost. We also had a Q&A with students about reverting changes in Git and contributing to Jenkins after the event. Meeting notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xhmEtwYIlGuuKtwn6Ek8DWyBEkPFA5q8CfWRRL7xZ9U/edit#heading=h.z4madwwp083a

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Hello um yeah today is april 26th. We are recording uh the meeting of uh uh chicago contributor, so we have several contributors on the call and we will just go through the updates talk about the close down of the event and then just agree on the whatever you want to discuss.

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So yeah I'll probably create a meeting notes just in the bottom of our running dock. If everyone is fine.

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I have no permission to edit this dog, but it should be okay,.

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So yeah just close down the event then yeah, maybe quick progress updates. Okay. So, let's start from updates by students.

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Did it finally use.

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Very bad, I don't know who tork I didn't get.

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Any of it is away from the keyboard. Anyone else.

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Okay, I think what we can do, let's you can just type some notes: asynchronously and yeah. Let's talk about the close down of the event so april. 30Th is the last day- and it's just a few days left before that. So I wanted to quickly talk. uh What is the best to do during the last days?

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And actually the best thing to focus on is finishing your work, because all of you have multiple open pull requests, so it would be better if you focus on generalizing them, so, instead of creating new pull requests, etc, let's focus on delivering what has already started, because it's better to complete less but uh to deliver that to jenkins users and yeah. My recommendation would be to do that.

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uh Yeah and yeah sorry, I'm always making a lot of typos and I just woke up, as you might have seen from my video um yeah and the second thing I suggest yes,.

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Oh, regarding that, I'm actually currently working on http, request, plugin and I should push latests at noon. So are you saying I shouldn't push again.

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No, you can push whatever you want. So again, it's focus on something. So, for example, if you have five open pull requests and the ball is on your side, for example, you need to make updates.

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uh I recommend to focus on that if there are open, pull requests which are missing, pull which are missing, reviews again, consider focusing on getting reviews, ask help from the community from mentors if needed, so that we could get this pull request over the line. If you want, you can totally submit new pull requests.

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What I'm just saying that it shouldn't be the top priority in this.

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Okay yeah another thing which makes sense to consider that again, we have several uh days left what we usually do. After such programs, we do a blog post with the report from the event, so, for example, in this case.

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It would be a blog post on checkout africa, so many of you have seen the jenkins blog.

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And basically, we would need some content for that, uh for example yeah. If you want to share some experiences.

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And provide some quotes and it's what you can do so, maybe in synchronously just by suggesting in this google doc. So, for example, I will create um a section um in the bottom, uh so it's.

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For example, anyone uh all mentors and students invited just put their notes there. For example, I can suggest my change.

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So you can just put your feedback like that.

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And actually we can have two items so, for example, let's finish with this part, have you wrote, have you written short testimonials before.

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You can provide some examples. We have a similar feedback for gsoc, so there is a google doc called jsoc, username mentor testimonials. We started just several weeks ago and you can find some examples of feedback we collected from our participants. So you can see that this feedback was collected in video form or in text. You basically can do the same or whatever you prefer.

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um So why we collect this feedback is because it's uh really helpful and it helps us to improve.

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So just if you could create a short quote, it would be useful.

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So I will put examples here.

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Again, it shouldn't take much of your time, so it's just when you have some time talk about your experiences and maybe more important part which you will need to do again not now, but uh gradually is retrospective.

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So if you work in uh agile environments, you may have seen that teams joined together, sometimes to discuss what went well, what could be done better and it's a very good practice, because it allows the team to iterate and improve how they collaborate with each with each other and to improve their processes and for each program we run engineers. We recommend to do a public retrospective and we basically invite everyone to submit their experiences for three items.

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So what uh went uh well what uh we do better.

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And the action.

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Items so how it works, and everyone is welcome to just get really short quotes. For example, I want to say what went well and yeah. What could we do better, so example alert. We.

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So something like that and yeah. This is rather good experiences, so usually they don't require too much discussion, but, for example, there are things we could do better, and this is also something we can add. So, for example, I can say that it needs a better engagement with wider jenkins community.

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Again, it's a just example of the feedback and, for example, we can start discussing it synchronously, so everyone can propose a change so, for example, uh yeah I can just clarify it a bit.

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It will be definitely part of my final feedback, so I think we can just discuss it but yeah what we see.

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It's more public and we could get.

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Okay, so, for example, yeah I put uh just one of my idea, yes and what clarification so, for example, if you disagree and it's perfectly fine to disagree, you can just put a comment there, or maybe you make your suggestion. If you see other things, we could do better. You can just again make a suggestion added to the list and then we will be discussing what went well and what could we do better and we will be defining action items for the future. So, for example, I can propose let's say.

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Okay, so, for example, to contribute on the.

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Interactions at the docs sick medium, so, for example, we can discuss this section, this feedback and agree on the next item for the next year, so that we make the program better. So this is a quick example of how we do retrospectives and again no need to do it right now, but yeah.

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I guess this: this is going to be discussed in friday.

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So better to feel it better. Before friday I mean.

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Yeah, it's better to do it synchronously, because uh meetings happen uh quite rarely and the time is not a convenient for participants. So if you do it synchronously, you can just chat with the entire community. So please uh feel free to put any ideas here and on friday we will discuss them. I'm not sure I will be able to join it's super late in my time zone.

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Okay, so does do these follow-ups make sense to you.

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Okay, so yep here, I'm just making note.

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Okay, any questions about the close down days.

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So uh the retrospective will be done on friday right. I was supposed to to write them down.

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Yeah, so anything you have in mind just put it here, so it doesn't have to be prioritized or whatever it doesn't uh need to be offensively written. Because again we can discuss everything so just put notes, etc.

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Usually, when big teams do retrospectives, they vote on the ideas on the discussion so that we can get more feedback, I don't think we will be doing that for chicot africa, because we have only a few participants, so we can just discuss them the things on the call but yeah, it's still essential to put your notes and your experiences there so that we can improve and I'm pretty sure that uh africa organizers will be also asking for your feedback in some form after the event so yeah, you can basically start preparing that.

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So just to clarify they should all write this up before the friday meeting, and then it will be discussed more in the friday meeting. We find right that make sense to.

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Yes, so maybe for this particular session we could add additional item to the retrospectives these obstacles experienced. So your newcomer contributors and the jenkins community, you may have seen some issues with developer tools, documentation these processes.

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So if you see something like that, uh yeah please put them there, because it would be a really valuable feedback to us as a community. We don't always see issues because we work on this project for years or for decades like me and mark so yeah.

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um I think it would be important to get your feedback so that we can again create action items and improve it regularly.

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And yeah, if you want to share your experiences in any format, for example, write your own blog post. Essentially, all of that is much appreciated, so whatever you want to do again, just do that.

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And be honest: if there's anything that you're concerned about that you're uncomfortable writing for everybody, um I would feel free to send a slack message just to mark or to any one of us actually.

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But uh I want you to feel that you can be honest and we don't want to make you uncomfortable, but we just want to yeah. As our leg says, we want to make it so that next year's people have a better experience, so we're always trying to improve things.

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Yeah, so again, if you see that something uh went bad, no repercussions at all, uh we are looking for feedback, so it's not something like it will influence anything, and actually any negative feedback is also appreciated. As long as it's justified and actionable.

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So, for example, there are ways there are multiple ways to share that, for example, um if you want to shape it back with organizers, so it's shikota africa or, for example, you can check it back with mark weight for internal stuff, and you can also share feedback with the jenkins governance board. If something went wrong.

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Well, hopefully not, but as things happen in the community, unfortunately not often at all, but for example, we have code of conduct.

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Yeah, I'm not sure whether mark referenced to that in the beginning, all contributors are expected to follow this code of conduct and if something goes wrong. For example, if you get let's say a toxic response in your pull request or whatever yeah, you can report that, so that jenkins governance board can follow up.

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No need to postpone that, because again we are trying to improve the community and again there will be no repercussions or whatever, because uh yeah that's how the jenkins community works.

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Okay, that's makes sense.

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Governor support member, so if you have some feedback, I'm not sure. Please feel free to reach out to me privately.

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And is everybody doing well with the work you're doing um lucy? What happened? I looked at the end of friday's session. You had a problem mark was gonna rerun. Did that clear up your problem.

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This is on the message that she's f key, so I'm not sure whether she's back okay, uh there is a question uh from leicester. Could we still contribute after this program? uh Of course? Yes, uh so you're welcome to contribute to the jenkins project at any time, as well as pretty much everybody else so yeah. If you want to keep contributing, please do so, whether it's related to chica africa or not.

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We also consider participating in more rich programs, so, for example, yeah you might be eligible for some of them. So, as we discussed before chicago africa, contributing participants might be technically eligible for google summer of code, but the application deadline is closed. At the same time, there are other events, so, for example, um yeah there will be oktoberfest in october. They will be outrageous in winter, so the application phase for summer is also uh closed. um Then, hopefully, next year we will be accepted to google seasonal talks.

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This year we are not accepted and there is also community bridge, also known as lfx mentorship. So jenkins project can run its own outreach programs on demand and we can run our mentorship programs on demand. So you can try one of these programs.

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If you are interested and you can just reach out to the community, for example, there is documentation, I seek and you can contact it so that if you need help at any moment, you can use this channel to get feedback and probably get some mentorship and, for example, we can be a meeting sometimes so you can use this meeting again for the discussion and any question.

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There is also a channel called newcomer contributors which you can use because again for asking any kind of questions, we will be happy to help and to point you to write channels if needed.

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Okay, I hope it answers your question.

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We would love to have you stay in the community.

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Yeah, of course, so yeah the main objective for us for african contribution for other events. Firstly, to provide a great experience to participants to let them learn it's the first power. Second priority is to introduce them to open source communities and uh to get them onboarded to the jenkins community, if possible, uh or maybe to other open source community, because it's also equally available and the third priority is actually to deliver something.

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So yeah personally, when organization mostly focus on experiences- and I encourage you to do so as well.

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Okay, so we have a few minutes left. Are there any questions, helping either the useful requests? That say true.

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The audio is a bit too low for me. I'm not sure whether I captured the question correctly.

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Yeah I'm having trouble hearing.

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Okay, so you prefer to write it: okay,.

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Yeah, sorry because yeah it really didn't follow. So um I guess helping with the pull request but yeah you didn't understand, which one sorry about that.

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I think uh uh audrey is better.

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Did you post the question.

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Or like we are seeing all your computer, I don't know if it's yeah.

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That is perfectly fine yeah. I usually turn off the slot, but in this case I'm just sending a message to the.

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Request for code examples to workflow basic steps. Plugin, when I push commits, I found out that it includes other commits from another branch. How can I remove them? So in this case you would need to rebase the branch and yeah for that there are tools in jenkins. Sorry inkit. I cannot show you a few examples. Second,.

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Okay, so for that, actually uh there are two common tools: one is a git rebase, another one is uh cherry peak and actually for the most common cases. I recommend the latter one so how it works. You have a three and from this 3 you can take a particular commit. So, for example, I can show you an example in the web in the ui, because it's easy, but you can do the same in the common line.

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So, for example, uh I have jenkins remoting, so I won't commit it anyway and you can see that there is just a master branch which includes a fuel request. Let's imagine I want to put something to the previous release, so here, for example, I will create a branch, for example, 641.

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Yeah and here for example, I want to take a commit, so you can see that if I just merge the three I will get all the history of commits. So it's probably the case. You've got because yeah most likely, you just started building a new branch on the top of the wrong page and here what I can do, for example, if I want to take a specific commit like this one, I can call it cherry pick command. So what it does is.

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Basically it takes the same, commit contents and applies you them to your current range. So I got it here and now you can see that I have a new branch, removing four or six one and then includes just one community that I cherry picked. Then I can push this branch to my fork and submit a pull request. Just with this content, it's one of the ways.

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Another way would be to do repays. But to be honest, I recommend cherry pick in this case, because it's much more simple.

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Does it answer your.

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Question in the case of cherry pick, you would need to recreate the pull request or to first push the branch, which is also possible because you can take the original name, rename this branch and then do a force, push and overwrite your pull request.

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Okay, does it answer the question? Okay,.

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Okay, anything else for today.

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Okay, then, if no other questions thanks everyone and talk to you on friday, I will try to join the final meeting, if not uh anjali, uh mark and mark will be able to handle that, and thanks again for all your contributions, so.

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Thanks, it's been a real joy.

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Yep, I am happy to confirm that so, let's uh focus on finishing the program and yeah celebrate that uh once we are done.

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