Outreachy Discussions - 2022 Round 1

[MridulS]

Hello all!

Please use this discussion page to discuss everything for Outreachy.
If you have any questions or doubts about the processes please put in a reply to this discussion post.

[AliciaElizabeta]

Hi, I'm Alicia. I hope we can work well together.

[HASSAN1A]

Hi,
I am Hassan Juma from from Nairobi Kenya happy to be here and really want to work on the project

[anna4j]

Hi, I'm Anushka. Here to learn and contribute!

[cherotich]

Hi, My name is Caroline. I am super happy to collaborate with you guys. Cheers.

[NikitaSharma1]

Hi, I am Nikita. I am so excited to learn and work with you. Looking forward to contribute!

[singhmansi25]

Hi !!
I'm Mansi. I'm here to explore, learn and experience. Looking forward to a great journey of contribution.

[0ddoes]

Hey all! My name is Izza. I am from India. Really looking forward to this contribution period. Can you please guide me on how I can start? Shall I look at the Good first issues initially? Do the issues have to be assigned to us to start working or can we open a PR when we are ready?

[aliveevie]

Hello, My Name is Ibrahim Abdulkarim, from Nigeria. Nice to meet you here

[Astroakanksha24]

Hello, this is Akanksha from India. Looking forward to contributing!!

[parikshit14]

Hi Team,

I am Parikshit Singh Rathore, I am a senior year undergraduate studying computer science and engineering. I have been contributing to open-source for a year and a half and would love to contribute & be part of this team for this summer through outreachy.

Would be delighted to discuss project topics further and start working on them.
Thanks

[Teresayyyy]

Hi, I'm Teresa, nice to meet you all and looking forward to contributing and working with you!

[Lukong123]

Hello everyone, I am Lukong Anne and it's a privilege to be here. Looking forward to contributing to the community!!

[martwebber]

Hello, I am Martin. I'm excited to be part of this community.

[MridulS]

Hello all! I'm super excited to see so many folks interested in contributing to NetworkX.

As a first step: applicants who haven't used networkx before should first install networkx on their machines and follow our introductory tutorial. This will give applicants a better overview of our codebase and API, which will help the applicant create a strong application.

Once applicants are comfortable with using networkx, they should go through our Contributor Guide to setup our local development environment for networkx, if the applicant is interested in working on specific issues they can comment on them (Good First issues). Applicants can also pick any other open issue if they like or even open a new issue/discussion if there is something in our documentation or codebase that doesn't make sense :)

The applicant should also go through the New Contributor FAQs as it may answer some of their questions.

As the project will deal with creating new notebooks for our NX-guides please do go through current notebooks at https://networkx.org/nx-guides/.

Feel free to post here if you have any other questions or issues!

Excited for the summer! :)

[deepthi1107]

Thanks, MridulS for the information.

[esticojerry]

Thanks for the information

[MridulS]

Hello all!

Just wanted to post another update. We have created another repository https://github.com/networkx/outreachy which will have explicit tasks for Outreachy applicants during the contribution period.

To participate with NetworkX as an Outreachy intern applicants are expected to go through multiple tasks in that repository. All tasks are presented as issues. We will add a couple of more tasks to this repository.

Everyone is expected to start with networkx/outreachy#2.

Feel free to post here if you have any other questions!

[aliveevie]

@MridulS I have done all the task on that repo, please I'm expecting feedback on my tasks.

[Inny05]

Hello everyone,
My name is Inny, and I am super excited to be here. I look forward to learning and improving on my skills.

[yashre-bh]

Hello!
Shreya Bhagat here, a Sophomore at IIT Roorkee, India. super pumped to learn and contribute. can someone guide me on how to get started?

[MridulS]

Thanks for your interest in contributing to NetworkX! Please through #5396 (comment) and #5396 (comment), if you have any other questions feel free to post them here.

[Saumay1]

Hello everyone!! This is Saumya, looking forward to learning and contributing.

[JyotiKM29]

Hello everyone ! I 'm Jyoti . Looking forward learn and Contribute .

[deepthi1107]

Hello @MridulS, while plotting the degree centrality of random erdos-renyi graph and barabasi_albert_graph, the distribution of hist is uniform, and even though I have changed the number of bins number the result is the same... Is I am going on the right path of visualizing the hist plot (distribution).

[dschult]

Hi @deepthi1107
You should probably create the PR using what you have got and then ask this question inside that PR. That way we can see what you are doing and try to give pointers. Without that extra information it is hard to know what is going wrong. This is the way we look at each other's work with Github. Create a PR with what we've done so far, and then leave comments/questions in the conversation about that PR. (probably also good to mention in the PR that this addresses issue #8)

[deepthi1107]

sure, thanks i definitely follow the steps and ask my quries through that.

[deepthi1107]

Actually, I was plotting the hist plot in the wrong way, and figured out how to do it.

[deepthi1107]

@MridulS, I have made changes in my PR, guide me if I am wrong.

[deepthi1107]

@MridulS, I have made PR and provide me feedback

[deepthi1107]

Anyone who know FOSS community channel link, share with me..
Thank you.

[MridulS]

Hello @deepthi1107! thanks for the nudge but as you can see from https://github.com/networkx/outreachy/pulls there are lot of open pull requests and reviewing the Jupyter Notebooks take more time than for example task 1. So please give us enough time to go through the submissions.

For the FOSS community channel link are you looking for something specific to NetworkX or something in general related to FOSS?

[deepthi1107]

Both of the links @MridulS.

[MridulS]

We don't really have anything specific for NetworkX. We do have a mailing list for announcements and some discussions. For a FOSS specific one maybe you can also checkout FOSS United, it's a group based out of India which works on the FOSS ecosystem in India, they have a telegram group too.

[deepthi1107]

Thanks @MridulS

[aliveevie]

@MridulS, Please what will be our contribution URL for submission to outreachy portal for review

[MridulS]

It should be the links to pull requests you make to the networkx/outreachy repo, for example networkx/outreachy#56

[aliveevie]

If I submit this link, is it ok: https://github.com/networkx/outreachy/tree/main/2022-round-1/aliveevie

[MridulS]

Should be fine.

[Saumay1]

Hi, @MridulS!
I am trying to to set up build environment using conda but am stuck in this

PYTHONPATH=. pytest networkx

I am using Windows.
Could u please help.

[singhmansi25]

@Saumay1
I faced same issue.
You can simply use pytest networkx to test if you are using anaconda prompt.
After this wait for some time, so that it executes successfully.

[Saumay1]

Thanks a lot @singhmansi25 :)
It worked, I was stuck in this for so long.

[singhmansi25]

@Saumay1
Happy to help

[unna97]

Hey!
I am a little late to introduce myself. I am Unnati. I am from India. Super excited to be here!

[singhmansi25]

No problem @unna97
You can check the issues to start your contribution.
Happy to connect

[Saumay1]

Welcome @unna97 :)

[FAIZ113]

Hi mentor @MridulS!
I am trying to run the test suite locally from the contribution guide but I am getting Value Errors.
I am really stuck. Please guide me where I went wrong and how to get the tests done properly.

[Ivy8127]

Hello, @MridulS can I still contribute to this project?

[MridulS]

Hello @Ivy8127 Contributions are always welcome :) But for outreachy we already have a lot of applicants.

[aliveevie]

@MridulS
Outreachy internship project timeline:
Please work with your mentor to provide a timeline of the work you plan to accomplish on the project and what tasks you will finish at each step. Make sure take into account any time commitments you have during the Outreachy internship round. If you are still working on your contributions and need more time, you can leave this blank and edit your application later.
Please how do we update this information on the outreachy portal.
Thanks

[MridulS]

A rough timeline for the pedagogical notebook should follow something like

Week of May 30: Research about the algorithm, dataset or method for the pedagogical notebook 1
Week of June 6: Implementation and Review
Week of June 13: Review

Week of June 20: Research about the algorithm, dataset or method for the pedagogical notebook 2
Week of June 27: Implementation and Review
Week of July 4: Review

Week of July 11: Research about the algorithm, dataset or method for the pedagogical notebook 3
Week of July 18: Implementation and Review
Week of July 25: Review

Week of Aug 1: Research about the algorithm, dataset or method for the pedagogical notebook 4
Week of Aug 8: Implementation and Review
Week of Aug 15: Review
Week of Aug 22: Wrap up of the internship

Feel free to add more or less details to the timeline.

[Lukong123]

Hello everyone,
Please sirs I am not able to fetch upstream from my forked repository on Github. I was asked to create a pull request but I don't know how to handle the situation the methods I tried out did not remedy the situation. Sir, I will love to get your advice on this.
Here's a link to my forked repo
https://github.com/Lukong123/networkx
Please I will appreciate your help in solving this problem.

[dschult]

I would say that the best approach is to fix it on a local clone of your github repo and then push that up to your repo.
On the local clone, checkout the main branch. Use git remote add upstream <networkx repo url>. Then git fetch upstream main and finally git merge the upstream main branch to your main branch. Many files will have a conflict and you'll have to go through one by one to fix the conflicting parts of the code. Once the git merge is completed you push to your repository.

Another approach would be to git reset your main branch back far enough to remove the commits you have made to your main branch. For example, if they are the most recent 15 commits, then

git checkout -b save_15_changes
git checkout main
git reset HEAD~15 --hard
git pull upstream main
# make sure all is OK
git push origin main

[Lukong123]

Thanks a lot sir, using git reset fixed the problem.

[sofia-b-chagas]

Hi guys! This project became one of which I'm most interested to contribute in this year's Outreachy season

Since contribution period already begun, I was wondering if this discussion page will still be used for Outreachy applicants and if yes, if I can start to adress some of the issues listed and maybe contact a mentor

Thank you!

[MridulS]

Hey @sofia-b-chagas! The contribution period hasn't started just yet (the date was moved to 8th October)! We appreciate the enthusiasm :) We will start a new discussion for round 2 this year (this discussion thread will be archived).