To Contribute to Open-Source is ... Happiness - My First Busy.Org Development Contribution by eastmael

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To Contribute to Open-Source is ... Happiness - My First Busy.Org Development Contribution
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I've been benefiting from the open-source community since I started using Eclipse since 2003. And I have always wanted to contribute to one, but never found the project I can immediately contribute to.

Steemit and busy.org changed that for me. And with utopian.io, things are starting coming together.

In this post, let me share with you my very first Development Contribution to the open-source community. 

## Why busy.org? Why not Steemit.com?

Well, firstly, busy.org was the first platform that I saw I can make an immediate impact. And that was for the Filipino translation of the UI as mentioned in my [previous post](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@eastmael/contribution-to-busy-org-s-filipino-translation).

Secondly, I am not familiar with the technology used for Steemit.com.

And lastly, I'm more familiar with the technology used for busy.org - JavaScript and Node.js.

## 1. The Story Behind the Bug

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![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/16621517/31648828-238ac6ca-b310-11e7-94dc-2fc0a6057e19.png)

</div>

The issue I tried to fix was [issue #826](https://github.com/busyorg/busy/issues/826). It was an issue regarding insufficient spacing between text (i.e., a paragraph) and an image immediately following it. 

The image on the left is the actual image used in the issue report.

<br/>

## 2. The Failure

Before proceeding with the actual solution, let me just share with you a failure I encountered before I was able to successfully contribute. It was a pull request (PR) I also submitted to the same project, but I was not able to provide a sufficient fix. And that fix is included in this closed PR - [PR#799 Set left and right margins to 0 for .Body pre; set width to 96%](https://github.com/busyorg/busy/pull/799).

### 2.1. What Failed?

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![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1508733388/pbzzhb21wn2syqrkjokf.png)

</div>

Although I was able to fix the display issue in my browser, further testing revealed that the fix was insufficient for smaller devices. See this comment by @Sekhmet in my PR.

> Looks like this still overflows on smaller screens:
> ...
> We should find a way to make this work well on different screen sizes.

### 2.2. What I Learned

> It's not enough that you've fixed the bug from what you see, it's important that others look at it in perspectives you've failed to look at.

## 3. My Solution

With this lesson in mind, I proposed a fix that could address the issue without the fix being rejected by providing supporting reference. 

The fix was to [add a `20px` margin to the top of a `.Body img` tag](https://github.com/busyorg/busy/pull/882). 

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![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/29425738/31859630-ee471970-b740-11e7-81cd-b16ae5a65ee8.png)

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![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/29425738/31859636-01a3d1c0-b741-11e7-8c96-5e613686ebc1.png)

</div>

***

The image on the left is the post before the fix, and the image on the right is the post including the fix.

### 3.1. The Code

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![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1508734297/uzkp7tcxeqconx9ots7p.png)

</div>

The image on the right shows the code included in the PR and that the code was merged into the branch `busyorg:new-design.`


*** 

### 3.2. My Development Environment

As I've mentioned, this is my first time contributing to an open-source project, as such, forks were new to me. Although I have forked other projects before, I have not made any developmental changes to them as such did not create any pull requests.


#### 3.2.1. The Fork

The fork I used to code the fix is in my [own fork](https://github.com/eastmaels/busy).

The `ssh` git URL is `git@github.com:eastmaels/busy.git`.

#### 3.2.2. The Branch

I created my own branch [`bugfix/add-space-before-image`](https://github.com/eastmaels/busy/commits/bugfix/add-space-before-image) and it was where I pushed my commit.

#### 3.2.3. The Commit

My commit was given the hash [`94a3271`](https://github.com/eastmaels/busy/commit/94a327194efa66cf8700be4872cccddae9cdc887).

#### 3.2.4. The PR

My PR was [PR#882](https://github.com/busyorg/busy/pull/882/files) in the official busy.org/busy git project.

## 4. Others

### 4.1. Setup

This was tested on my local environment using the setup mentioned in the README.md in github.

```
git clone https://github.com/busyorg/busy.git
cd busy
```

```
npm install
npm run dev-server
```

### 4.2. Test Environment

* Machine: Lenovo T450
* Technology Stack: Node.js, npm, javascript, css
* Browser: Chrome

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@espoem · 
Hi, can you look at it again? It appears that this might have brought additional space where it wasn't needed. https://github.com/busyorg/busy/issues/892
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@eastmael · 
Thanks for the heads up. Will do.
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@kcire · 
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Thanks @kcire. :)
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@zararina · 
You contributions will really matter, keep it up. :)
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