My Outreachy 2017 @ Wikimedia Foundation

This time around there are all sort of things I see, learn and notice from Outreachy To begin, The project is progressing and I have submitted some few patches under it😎. Till now the most difficult is not coding but understanding and knowing what I am required to do. It took me some good time to come up with a conclusion on what exactly I had to do. Also, I can say my PHP skills are greatly improving as I keep working. My first task was to put the MassMessage extension in a namespace MediaWiki\MassMessage. I bet you when I sat on my pc the day I started the task, I didn't know one bit what it means😂😂. I had all sort of ideas in my mind from the few research I made. I was so confused that I had to contact my mentors. Funny enough I really did not still have it clear but while doing, I had it clearer till the first patch I submitted. What actually are those things that shocked me in the journey? The speed at Which I learn. It is very high. I heard of a new program GCI...

Hmmm!! long waited for this time, where i will get my hands dirty 😎😎 Coding has finally started and the first thing is to setup a MediaWiki instance on Cloud VPS, which I shall use with my mentors to test changes before deployment. Believe me, it was a sweet experience but difficult. Just at the beginning, I had multiple challenges😓😓 but luckily, I have very responding mentors (@Legoktm, @D3r1ck) always available for help. This is a narration of what happened. I had never worked with cloud services before so I was relying greatly on documentations and following of steps. I created a new instance massmessage-test-wiki on the massmessage project on WikiMedia Cloud VPS. That was pretty simple. The next thing was to connect to the instance and setup MediaWiki on it. I had struggle for hours without succeeding, made research with no good output. In fact, I could not even connect to the instance😢😢. After some long struggle I thought the problem might be my operating system as I h...

Now, Outreachy has started and it's time to get to work.  Trying to know my mentors well and setting up for development. Even though I have some personal problems and instability in now in my life I am trying to push up with the work😥😥. I am anxious for the coding period to come and for me to start work fully😛. Hopefully by then, I will be more stable. I created a phabricator task requesting for a new project " MassMessage-testing"   on cloud VPS for testing that was granted and resolved by Brian Davis. The project will be used by my mentors and I for testing of changes during the Outreachy period. All I need is to set up MediaWiki on it now😌😌.