Hello!
I’m excited to be facilitating the upcoming Dev Demo Hour on Aug 7 at 4:00 pm EAT/ 1:00 pm GMT. I have confirmed two presentations already:
- @elijah will be showing off how to use the CHT oolbox to show active processes, monitor disk space during upgrades and also an experimental feature for working in a very resource constrained hosting environment
- @Romuald_Dansou will discuss a real world issue he faced when upgrading a production instance to the latest
4.21 version, what steps he took to troubleshoot the issue and what the ultimate fix was.
I’m looking for a 3rd presenter to cover how to set up the CHT Core development environment. We’ve had a number of community members begin their journey to contribute code and this the first challenge to overcome on your journey to make a bug fix or add a feature. I hope to find an active community member who’s recently solved this challenge!
@apoorvapendse - I wonder if you’re free be this 3rd presenter? You would need to give a 3-7 min presentation on how you set up the CHT for development on your computer and then answer any questions attendees may have. The call would be Aug 7 at 4:00 pm EAT/ 1:00 pm GMT. Please let me know!
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Thanks for asking @mrjones.
I will be available for the dev hour and would love to present on this topic.
Though I am not sure whether it is possible to do a full setup from scratch on call in the given 3-7 minute window.
Also, is there an operating system you’d prefer me to talk about?
I’ve been able to setup cht-core for development on Linux and Windows using WSL2.
Most of it was just blindly following the “Happy Path” installation steps from the docs you’ve linked, apart from a couple personal preferences like not cloning cht-core in my home dir and instead use the one I use to setup projects.
Thanks.
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@apoorvapendse - Yay! that’s great you’re available and interested in presenting.
The goal is maybe to not do a from scratch install (say on a VM), but more to walk through the process and call out any gotchas. It would be fine to say something like, “In the Install NodeJS, npm, and Docker section, I followed the steps exactly and it worked as expected” which should shave off a lot of time on the demo.
The most important part of the demo will be talking about any parts where you got stuck and then answering any questions from other folks who are having issues or have questions about the not so happy path.
We can have you go first and you’re welcome to take up to 10 minutes + Q&A.
Thanks so much and looking forward to seeing you on the 7th!
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Thanks for the response, that makes sense.
The most important part of the demo will be talking about any parts where you got stuck and then answering any questions from other folks who are having issues or have questions about the not so happy path.
Yeah, I do have some points that might be helpful for newcomers and can also be used to potentially update CHT’s documentation.
We can have you go first and you’re welcome to take up to 10 minutes + Q&A.
Sure, thanks!
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Great - thanks again Apoorva. The personal, first hand experience you bring will be most welcome!
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Hello @apoorvapendse @elijah and @Romuald_Dansou ! I’m excited to have you all present on tomorrow’s (Aug 7th) Developer Demo Meetup! Thanks very much for volunteering to present.
It’d be great if you could all join the call ~10 min early, so 3:50 pm EAT/ 12:50 pm GMT, to ensure all the screen sharing tests and mic checks go OK!
I also had remembered making a “how to do demonstrations” video. I suspect you know most of the info in the 3m 30s video, but I’ll share it all the same in case there’s some ideas you didn’t know! (Ignore OBS specific info 
)
Here’s the info on how to join tomorrow!
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That video is quite insightful!
I’ll try to do some setup beforehand.
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Thank you very much @apoorvapendse @elijah and @Romuald_Dansou! I personally got a lot out of the three presentations and have had numerous folks already report new learnings about how the CHT works.
@apoorvapendse - I also wanted to mention a docs PR based on your feedback as well as a CHT Core ticket. Thanks again!
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That’s great!
Glad it was helpful.