I wonder if freedom scientific could do a few webinars on how to use github with jaws? particularly how to make new issues, how to make comments, how to make pull requests correctly, how to make commits, how to make forks of repositories and so on? this would be very helpful. I am used to doing things the way stuff was done in the 1990s. someone wants code you send them a zip file. 

On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 12:43 PM, Jason White wrote:

It’s all quite easy to do from the github.com Web site.

I generally use the GitHub-Cli command line tool for greater efficiency, though.

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Not that FS couldn't do a webinar, but in the list of things that have broad applicability, GitHub isn't one of them for most of the JAWS user base.

You're correct that this is reasonably easy to do via the website or using GitHub CLI.  And there are tutorials on using GitHub CLI, too.

But in the end, the best way to learn this, from scratch, is to engage with someone who already knows how, and even more so for a specific project.  If there exists a "testing project" out there that one could play with in terms of creating PRs, that would be handy to know about, as you can't really do test PRs with a real project.

Contacting the owner of a project you wish to contribute to makes infinite sense as an initial step.  They may, or may not, welcome others in.  There's little point in doing a pull request that the actual owner (or any of the developers) of a project wouldn't honor after the fact.
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