From the list of open issues, I decided to claim this one for a sidebar feature that allows multiline tags. One of the main developers, Quincy, replied to me quickly saying he had attempted a solution but the issue turned out to be more difficult than he initially thought. I appreciated that he encouraged me to find a better implementation and pointed me in the direction of modifying <input type="text"> to <textarea> in order to support multiline input.

A running list of open issues that are possible candidates for contributions:

• Add relationships to presets
  • I really appreciate the clarity of this issue/feature request’s documentation. The suggestions under the Future Considerations section are all interesting aspects to explore and seem to be at the level of difficulty we would want to work on for the rest of the semester.
• Lost touchscreen capability in the map
  • My laptop has a touchscreen and I was surprised to find out that I’m experiencing this issue as well. I tried the editor on my phone and it was also unresponsive. I think it would be great to explore how touch-based interactions work and improve the map’s accessibility in this way.
• Turn restriction editor should redraw when the sidebar resizes
• Multiline text fields for long tag values
  • These issues seem small but do make noticeable differences in how a user interacts with the map. I have some code from another class that deals with the window resizing problem; we can take a look at that as a starting point.
• Filter for panoramic streetlevel images (connected to Date filter for street level imagery trips)
  • This issue is vague and looks to be more involved than the ones previously mentioned, but I think it would be interesting to figure out how to filter images by date/type.

This week, we were tasked to analyze how issues were closed through accepted PRs. I decided to stick with OpenStreetMap’s iD editor because I was able to see it in action during Hacktoberfest. I also chose issues hitting different parts of the codebase on purpose, so as to gain a broader overview of the project.

I completed the Hacktoberfest challenge over the weekend! I did a quick fix for the README file of the BUGS website after Joanna mentioned it was an open issue in our last meeting. I also submitted two PRs to one of our chosen projects, OpenStreetMap’s iD editor. The first was a simple addition of a JSON field which got merged within an hour (!!). The second involved styling map components so it was a little more complicated. I really appreciated that one of the lead developers replied quickly when I asked to work on the issue and advised me on where to start. I thought the problem was with the CSS at first, but after a bit of digging (thank you git grep), I realized I needed to add some JavaScript to ensure elements were being tagged with the correct styling. Overall, I’m glad I got to learn about and start contributing to some cool open source projects this month! Also can’t wait for the shirt to come in the mail 😅

This weekend, I submitted my first PR for Hacktoberfest! I found Spok while digging through the featured projects; it’s a Ruby gem that checks if a particular weekday is a holiday or not. Since the creators are based in Brazil, they are asking contributors for holiday calendars from other countries to make their tool more globally responsive. I added one for my home country, the Philippines. The issue was well-documented and they also have a good contributing guide, so the process was pretty straightforward on my end. While I didn’t deal with actual code, the experience of contributing still gave me a confidence boost and makes me excited to find new projects to work on.

Astropy

It took me a while to figure out how to install the development version (which is different from installing the library itself), but it was a quick and easy process after that. I also appreciate that they have a page about the GitHub workflow to make changes to their codebase.

Astropy (under OpenAstronomy)

Python library with common tools needed to perform astronomy and astrophysics