Workshop help: sign in, report, build along
The workshop at werkstatt.kiplatz.at is the place for building along. This page explains how you sign in, write a report, bring in an idea and share a skill. You do not need to be a programmer.
One account for everything
You always sign in on the workshop page, no matter whether you clicked Sign in in the forum, in the build-along area or in the program. It works with e-mail address and password or with your Google or GitHub account.
The same account then works everywhere. Forgot your password? The link is below the sign-in field, the mail arrives within minutes.
Write a report when something is off
In the project KIplatz/mitbauen click "Neue Meldung" (New report) and pick one of the three templates: bug, idea or question. Write what you did, what happened and what you expected. The build number is in the program under Help, About.
Never put passwords, keys or other people's addresses into a report. Security issues please in confidence to support@kiplatz.at.
Bring in an idea
The "idea" template asks whom it helps and what it would change. Other members answer below, and if it gets built, the decision is recorded in the same thread.
An idea may be small. The best ones come from everyday use, such as a sentence in the window nobody understands.
Share a skill
A skill is a text file with rules KIplatz follows, for example what an invoice under Austrian law looks like. The community's skills live in the folder skills of the project.
You hand in your own with the file attached or as a proposed change. After review every member gets it in the program.
Reports, skills and guides, no source code
The workshop holds reports, ideas, questions, skills, the guides for people who build along and the list of sources. Anyone can read them, and anyone with an account can write.
The source code of program and service is not here, it stays with us. Nor is there anything about individual members.
When a word sounds foreign
The workshop runs on free software many developers know, so its words show up: "issues" are reports here, a "pull request" is a proposed change, a "repository" is a project.
"Explore" lists all projects. You change the language of the interface in your account settings.
Building starts with a report.
The workshop in five lines
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Your first report
One sentence is enough: what bothers you or what you wish for. The newest are on the start page, so everyone sees what is being built right now.