Proposal: Contribution to open-source

[lnsandnkth]

Assignment Proposal

Title

Contributing to Imgbot, friendly robot that optimizes images of your repository

Names and KTH ID

• Leon Sandner (sandner@kth.se)

Deadline

Deadline for task 3

Category

Contribution to open-source

Description

Imgbot crawls all your image files in GitHub and submits pull requests after applying a loss less compression.
This will make the file size go down, but leave the dimensions and quality just as good.

I want to dive into the topic of software bots, I never used this project but think it is very useful and I want to contribute to it.

The repo has an active community and is big enough (883 stars)

The issue is relevant and current, issue #1068 is also pinned by a community member.

To resolve this issue, I will add a new feature that will convert the size of the images to the correct respective multi-byte notation.

As I have not yet used this project before, the effort for me should be enough for me to pass this assignment.

repo-link: https://github.com/imgbot/Imgbot

forked repo-link: https://github.com/lnsandn01/Imgbot

Issue to work on:

imgbot/Imgbot#1068

[cesarsotovalero]

Hi @lnsandnkth,
Thanks for the clear and sincere explanation of the task at hand.
This repo is much in the scope of DevOps (I've used it on my own web projects 😄)
Your contribution is small but still significant: it will impact many users.
LGTM!
Good luck.

[lnsandnkth]

@cesarsotovalero i just created the pull request at their repo: imgbot/Imgbot#1143
I hope they will merge it
(PS: I used my private github account for this, and not the kth one)

[lnsandnkth]

@cesarsotovalero, what I did was basically fixing the wrong use of the kb unit in the whole project and then i changed the tostring function of the compression results and adapted/added a corresponding test case. All tests are passing so i think it should be fine.