This blog was made to share some of my experiences contributing to open-source software. This started as part of a course called MAC0470, Introduction to the Development of Free Software, offered by the University of São Paulo from March to June of 2024. Here I document the contributions during the course and beyond!
In this post, I talk about the first MR we wrote to GNOME Calendar.
Read MoreTests are an extremely important part of software development. We are now working on expanding the Calendar's test coverage.
Read MoreA patch to the Linux Kernel is our first goal for this discipline, but for such a large project, long preparation is required.
Read MoreWe sent our first patch to the Linux Kernel! To our surprise, the response was very fast, but it was not exactly what we hoped for!
Read MoreContributing to the kernel involved many challenging steps! Kernel-workflow is a project that started at the University of São Paulo and is meant to reduce the overhead when contributing to the Linux Kernel. We will be working on this project for the next few weeks.
Read MoreWe decided to work on a project that we use on a daily basis, and GNOME was a great candidate! In this post, I explain our idea for the final project of the semester.
Read MoreIn this post, I share the progress that Otávio Silva and I have made in our contributions to GNOME Calendar.
Read MoreThis is a short retrospective of the projects I worked on during this discipline and some of the things I learned in the process.
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