BRL-CAD is huge. Thousands of files spread across 165 directories. Maintaining a high quality of source code and documentation is a never ending task, but one anyone can help with.
Sound's easy, but you might be surprised because you need to ignore all of the source code and function variables that will easily trip up any automatic spell-check program. You basically only care about spelling mistakes within comments. Even for our documentation, much of it is formatted in xml and you have to ignore all of the xml tags.
This task involves finding and fixing simple spelling mistakes. To complete the task, you need to find 10 or more different spelling mistakes in at least 10 different files. You have to fix all occurrences of the spelling mistake across all those files. Make sense?
Remember to check and fix all occurrences of the mistakes in all 10+ files, make and submit it as a patch file.
BE SURE TO HAVE UP-TO-DATE SOURCES!!! We find and fix spelling mistakes on a daily basis and throughout the day. You have to find mistakes that are not already fixed or reported.
To clarify:
- 1 mistake in 7 different files counts as: 1 and 7
- 20 mistakes in 2 files counts as: 10 and 2
- 5 mistakes across 20 files counts as: 5 and 10
- You need to find: =10 mistakes AND =10 files
| File name/URL | File size | Date submitted | |
|---|---|---|---|
| patches.tar.gz | 2.9 KB | December 30 2012 20:24 UTC | |
| 10Patches.patch | 7.1 KB | January 06 2013 01:33 UTC | |
| PatchesRevised.patch | 5.4 KB | January 08 2013 05:36 UTC | |
| revisedPatch2.patch | 7.1 KB | January 08 2013 17:53 UTC |
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I've to check all the documentation?
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You can check any and all files that belong to us. That means ignore EVERYTHING in src/other, some of the files the misc/ subdirectory, and a few others spread throughout our tree.
If is yes, I can't... The error "lt;minnamelength-errorgt;" always appears.
I really want to help but I can't, maybe the next year...
I don't want to make more mistakes in the documentation so, I unclaim this task. Because, my English isn't good a lot. Maybe I've mistakes here and I don't know...
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Hi Jjca, we're also here to help you learn, so there's no need to worry. I think you misunderstood the task just a little bit because you don't need to register on our website. This task involved fixing spelling mistakes in our project source files. See http://brlcad.org/wiki/Deuces to get started. Basically, you just check out our sources from svn and look for mistakes.
You're welcome to reclaim the task if you want. Like I said, we're here to help you learn. Ask questions if you don't understand something.
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I get this error when I import BRL-CAD VM:
Failed to import appliance C:/Users/Jackie/Desktop/BRL-CAD_7.21.0_ubuntu_10.04_LTS_x86_r49726.ova.
Could not create the clone medium 'C:\Users\Jackie\VirtualBox VMs\BRL-CAD_7.21.0_ubuntu_10.04_LTS_x86_r49726\BRL-CAD_7.21.0_ubuntu_10.04_LTS_x86_r49726-disk1.vmdk'.
VMDK: Compressed image is corrupted 'C:\Users\Jackie\Desktop\BRL-CAD_7.21.0_ubuntu_10.04_LTS_x86_r49726-disk1.vmdk' (VERR_ZIP_CORRUPTED).
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I keep getting this error whenever I try importing the BRL-CAD
(the error is similiar a comment another person posted)
Failed to import appliance C:/Users/Amit/Desktop/BRL-CAD_7.21.0_ubuntu_10.04_LTS_x86_r49726.ova.
Could not create the clone medium 'C:\Users\Amit\VirtualBox VMs\BRL-CAD_7.21.0_ubuntu_10.04_LTS_x86_r49726\BRL-CAD_7.21.0_ubuntu_10.04_LTS_x86_r49726-disk1.vmdk'.
VMDK: Compressed image is corrupted 'C:\Users\Amit\Desktop\BRL-CAD_7.21.0_ubuntu_10.04_LTS_x86_r49726-disk1.vmdk' (VERR_ZIP_CORRUPTED).
IAppliance {3059cf9e-25c7-4f0b-9fa5-3c42e441670b}
Never Mind, I've must have downloaded the wrong BRL-Cad file, I redownloaded BRL-Cad file and i dont get any problems with importing it
I've read on how to create and submit an patch file, but I'm unsure on what to do with it. If I find a mispelled coment, should copy all the contents in the file and paste into the patch file? Or is the patch file a place where i can put other files which I've corrected?
-Amit
Amit, you just submit your patch file. You'll edit the typos you find, create a patch file with Subversion, and submit that file here. See http://brlcad.org/wiki/Patches for help if you haven't read that already.
yes, I read that that page on patches, but what I'm confused on is should I copy and paste the whole file which i made the changes to. Or do you want me just copy 1 line of code(for each file) containing the edited typos. I am kind of confused on how your patch file system worked so i just made 10 different patch files for each edited file
also, im trying to upload all my patch files, although i get errors when i try to put the files in my USB and then tranfer them to my actual comp. desktop. So... this is becoming tediuos and i dont want to be a pain so yeah ill just unclaim
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Upload your patch files and we can see. You certainly don't upload the entire edited file -- that's the point of patch files. They contain the changes you made and enough context so we know where you made those changes. You're welcome to reclaim the task -- we're glad to help you learn (you're not yet being a pain).
Know that you're helping us improve too and your improvements will be enjoyed by thousands of others.
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i uploaded the patches. I will admit that two of the patches aren't exactly "spelling mistakes" so i will fiind more mistakes if you want me to. But thanks for helping me
-Amit
Amit, those aren't proper patch files. Patch files have a specific format and done properly will be only one text file. See http://brlcad.org/wiki/Patches for help but the basic idea is that you need an SVN checkout of our sources and then you'll just run "svn diff" to get your patch file.
i read the patches site, but it doesnt describe on how to get a SVN checkout and whenever i make a patch file it says its not a working copy (but it still makes the patch file anyways)
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Amit, there are a thousand tutorials around the web on how to obtain an SVN checkout (and our http://brlcad.org/wiki/Compiling page covers it as well). Do you need more time?
i read the compiling page, but as everytime i finish with all the steps and run the quick test, it opens up the mged modeler thing and says it is a read only copy, and when i make a patch file it still says the patch file is not a working copy. I am trying the compliling steps 1 more time, and maybe it will work...
its never works for me???, always getting svn: '.' is not a working copy
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Amit, you're welcome to reclaim the task and we'll help you learn how to make a patch so you can get credit for your work. Making patches are a fundamental skill that can be confusing at first, but is really very simple. If you need assistance, ask a question on something that is confusing you or a specific question on what you're trying to accomplish so we can help you. We want you to learn and enjoy working your tasks. ;)
Hi sean,
Do you have an IRC chat?
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i figured out on how to make a patch file
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Hello,
I strongly encourage you to join our IRC channel ( #brlcad on irc.freenode.net) and ask any question that you have as we will be able to help you faster and more than we can here.
Also, it is really important to keep up to date sources. Join us on IRC and ask issue or curiosity that you have. We'll be glad to help !
Good luck,
Andrei
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i figured out how to make the patch files, but all the spelling mistakes I did previously have already been corrected by other people. So i've tried searching for new spelling mistakes but they are becoming pretty rare. So anyways some of the mistakes i've recorded aren't exactly actual spelling mistakes, but i've made sure that i didn't accidently change any purposely mispelled words representing variables and file names.
-amit
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Sorry, Amit, but the changes you made are not sufficient. BRL-CAD literally has millions of words so you should be able to find many (hundreds) mistakes if you look hard enough and in the right places.
As for your patch, several of the changes you made aren't even right. Minima is not a mispelling of minimal; same goes for sane vs same. Expanding intentional abbreviations is also not useful as that does nothing to improve our quality.
I suggest sticking to spelling mistakes. You may be able to review previous spelling corrections that have been made and find more occurrences. Or search the web for commonly mispelled words and see if you can find any in our files.
so am i only supposed to find spelling mistakes in the src folder, becuase all of your source codes seem to have already been edited. You said i should be able to find 100's of spelling mistakes yet in the last 6 hours the best "spelling mistakes" i can come up with is changing high-res to high-resolution
You're not limited to the src folder -- any file that is *ours* to change is fair game. That mostly means ignore src/other, some files in misc, and some e-mail files in doc.
If you're not finding any spelling mistakes, then your search method sounds like it needs to be changed. I hope you're not just looking through lines of code trying to find something. That would be time-consuming and unlikely be very helpful to you.
then what do you suggest my search method be? I try to find files which have spelling mistakes and if i do then i search all files in that directory because they have probobably not been previously proofread. the only problem is none of the files have spelling mistakes so i dont know where to start
actually i think i figured out an efficient method for searching for mistakes. ALthough is it ok if i find mistakes like "then vs than" , and "their vs there"
are you ok with spelling mistakes such as "writeout", and "inorder" ("write out" and "in order" are actually 2 seperate words)
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this is the new patch copy, for a couple files i changed the "their and there" and also "than and then"
there is also a sentence containing a word called "normalward", i think he was referring to the normal axis so i modified the sentence to make more sense
Glad to see that you left "inorder" alone as that is correct as-is ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_traversal ), but the rest looks good. You got to 10 files, BUT, I only count 8 unique mistakes:
then, shtuff, doe, normalward, facetted, writeout, there, Modurn
You need 2 more.
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so is it ok if i use "then" or "there" 1 more time or is that type of mistake is already taken
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Now I take it you see why I said there are hundreds and they should be rather easy to find (with the right process). You can't have a million lines of code and not end up with hundreds of spelling mistakes.
If you provide your full name, we'll credit you with special thanks in our project documentation.
Patch applied in r54143.
my name is Amit Saxena and thanks for helping me through this assignment
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