Make software accessible

What This Task Involves

1. Understand how to use GitHub to make software accessible

Training Materials

This training session was held on March 6, 2015:

• Presentation -- to be posted
• Step-by-step guide on setting up GitHub

1. Pre-Requisites
1.1 Download and install hub.github.com. You will need to install 'brew', and 'go' after.
1.2 Install brew Untar anywhere and then symlink the brew command elsewhere.

$ mkdir /usr/local/homebrew && curl -L https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C homebrew 
$ cd /usr/local/bin 
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/homebrew/bin/brew brew 

2. Brew Dependencies
2.1 Install go $ brew install go add path to .cshrc and/or .bashrc:

setenv GOPATH /usr/local/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.4.2/bin (csh) 
export GOPATH=/usr/local/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.4.2/bin (bash)

2.2 Install hub

$ cd $HOME/src && git clone https://github.com/github/hub.git
$ cd hub
$ script/build 
$ mv ./hub ~/bin # (make sure your PATH includes $HOME/bin)

3.Git SSH Keys
3.1 follow this guide to make sure that you have Git SSH keys: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys/ TL;DR version:
a. ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@example.com”
b. don’t use a passphrase (will be annoying if you later)
c. grab the value out of $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and then go over to your Github account > Settings > SSH keys and paste the value of the id_rsa.pub file into the key setting.

4. Create your project locally and then check in to Git
4.1 $mkdir -p $HOME/src/<your project name> (Create your local project)
4.2 $cd $HOME/src/<your project name> (Change the current working directory to your local project)
4.3 Edit and add a README.md file.
4.4 Edit and add a LICENSE.txt file (suggestion: Apache License, version 2)
4.5 Add your pom.xml file and/or setup.py file and/or .PM file.
4.6 Add your dependencies.
4.7 $git init (to initialize your working repo in this dir)
4.8 $git add * (to add all the uncommitted files)
4.9 $git commit -m 'Initial commit'
4.10 $git create
4.11 $git push origin master
4.12 Visit https://github.com/<your username>/<your project>.git and there is your project!

Suggested Readings

• TBD

What To Do

Create a GitHub account and contribute your project to GitHub