Unable to fork the Box project in git.cloudron.io

[d19dotca]

Hello,

I was wanting to fork the Box project to be able to offer contributions, but the "fork" button that's normally in the upper left corner of the project is not there, but appears for other projects. Is the Box project protected possibly? How might I be able to offer contributions to the project?

Dustin.

[girish]

Good question, no clue why it's hidden for the box code alone.

[girish]

Ah, I see why. This is because Merge Requests and Forks was disabled. In the past, we had few people submit big PRs and get upset when we it didn't align with what we wanted. It's best to let us know first if you are making big changes. I have enabled it now in any case.

[d19dotca]

Thanks @girish! I forked it now successfully. Was going to change that text for the reboot message like was mentioned in the other thread, but I cannot for the life of me find that text anywhere in the Box project. Not sure why. I'll keep hunting tomorrow.

[murgero]

@d19dotca If you are on Linux working with the code, install ack-grep then do:

cd /to/code/root/dir
ack "Some Reboot Text Here For You"

And it will spit out the file AND line it's in.

[d19dotca]

@murgero I was just searching directly in the repository on the cloudron git app. I thought that’d be enough. I am relatively new to using git, so maybe searching that in GitLab isn’t enough. I’ll try downloading the repository and trying that. Thank you for that suggestion.

[girish]

@d19dotca The box code is only the backend code. The frontend code is at https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/dashboard

[d19dotca]

@girish oh I had no idea, nice to know now! Haha okay thank you, I appreciate that clarification. I’ll check it out.

[d19dotca]

@girish wait... is that correct? I get a 404 on that link.

[d19dotca]

@girish That link still leads me to a 404, just FYI.

[d19dotca]

@girish - Still looking to see if that Dashboard project is hidden or something because I get a 404 to it. Would love to be able to offer some work in it, but can't do it if I can't fork (or even find) it.

[girish]

@d19dotca Can you try again? AFAICT, the permissions are correct, I restarted gitlab now.

[girish]

Also, please sign the CLA if you haven't done so already before submitting any patches - https://cla.cloudron.io/

[d19dotca]

@girish No dice.

[d19dotca]

@girish - I think it's because the project visibility is set to "Internal", that's my guess anyways.

[d19dotca]

@girish said in Unable to fork the Box project in git.cloudron.io:

Also, please sign the CLA if you haven't done so already before submitting any patches - https://cla.cloudron.io/

Just signed.

[girish]

@d19dotca I created a test user and tried to see the repo and I can see it. I made it Public instead of Internal now (my understanding is that Internal means if you are logged in you can see it). Maybe rel-login even?

[d19dotca]

@girish Ah I see it now! I suspect that internal thing was it. How does it look for Box if you compare, for example?

[girish]

Yeah, the box is set to Public. Not sure why the discrepancy but this was set a few years ago and has seen 100s of GitLab updates in the meantime. Anyway, thanks in advance for any contribution

We don't have proper instruction for testing the UI but you can do this:

• npm install
• gulp develop --api-origin=https://my.domain.com

This then runs a local dev server at localhost:4000 which you can use for testing.