Saturday, May 30, 2020

Magit/Forge Cheatsheet For GitHub Workflow

Magit/Forge Fork And Create Pull-Request Cheat-Sheet For GitHub

The previous article covered the fork/create-pullreq workflow for
GitHub without using a browser.
It turns out that in learning by doing, I had made a few mis-steps
that made things a lot more convoluted. Here is a quick cheat-sheet on
how to do this exclusively with Magit/Forge.


  1. Run M-x magit-status on your Git clone of the project to
    which you wish to contribute.
  2. Add your GitHub user-id "tvraman" in my case to forge custom
    option forge-owned-accounts.
  3. In the magit-status buffer above, type 'cf to create the fork
    and answer the prompts with the defaults as they appear in the minibuffer.
  4. Create your feature branch, add your contribution and check-in.
  5. In the magit-status buffer, type 'cp to create the
    pull-request.

Share And Enjoy!


Thursday, May 28, 2020

GitHub Standard Fork And Pull-Request Workflow From Emacs


GitHub Standard Fork And Pull Request From Inside Emacs

1 Executive Summary

Collaborating via GitHub (and similar platforms) requires
understanding and following a somewhat standardized fork, create, push
workflow. Most of the gory details of this workflow typically get
hidden by instructions of the form

Sign in to GitHub in your browser and /push/ the button on the  top-left

or something similar.
I live exclusively in Emacs and use Chrome as the weapon of
last-resort, this article details how to perform the afore-mentioned
GitHub collaboration workflow from within Emacs. Caveat — you may
still need to resort to Chrome or Firefox to set up GitHub tokens etc.


2 The Standard GitHub Workflow

The GitHub collaboration workflow is documented (if somewhat sparsely)
on GitHub, and it's augmented by many excellent tutorials on the
Web. I will avoid repeating that information, other than to link to
them below and point out that reading those is essential to build a
clear mental picture of how things work. The remainder of this article
will focus on how to achieve the equivalent without having to push
buttons on the GitHub web site.




3 Collecting The Needed Tools

Here are the tools I needed to achieve the goal of achieving the above
workflow from within Emacs and without resorting to a Web browser.


  1. Package Magit from Melpa.
  2. Package Magit/Forge from Melpa.
  3. Command-Line tool hub from GitHub
  4. Newer Command-Line tool gh from GitHub.


Command-line tools gh and hub are written in go and implement
the GitHub API.
At the time of writing, hub appears more complete, but gh is
catching up fast.


4 Implementing The GitHub Workflow

I'll use a concrete example to avoid introducing additional confusing
terminology. In my own learning journey, I often got confused by
terminology such as name, remote, etc. each of which were being
used in a specialized sense.


4.1 Task:

Create a Pull-Request to project speech-rule-engine from user
zorkow/ — the project repository is
Speech Rule Engine from user zorkow.



Fork
Fork the project you wish to contribute to. I found multiple ways of doing this (eventually).
  1. magit/forge inside emacs:
'cf RET RET

This invokes command M-x forge-fork which prompts for two name
arguments. The meaning of those arguments are somewhat
non-obvious which is why I failed initially. To use it
successfully, set Forge Custom option forge-owned-accounts to
your GitHub user-id — in my case tvraman. Note that this
variable can hold a list of GitHub user-ids that you use.

(setq forge-owned-accounts '(("tvraman")))

With the above in place, go to where you have the source
repository checked out, in my case:

cd ~/sources/zorkow/speech-rule-engine

and open the magit status buffer by executing

M-x magit-status

and execute Emacs command forge-fork — by default
magit/forge binds this to 'cf. The minibuffer shows the
user-id you set up in forge-owned-accounts/ earlier as the
default, press RET to accept the user-id value for both the
fork and remote arguments.

  • The above flow works once it's all set-up — note however that
    if you are happier to just do this at the shell, you can use
    either hub or gh — read the documentation for those
    commands. Either way, you now have a copy of the
    speech-rule-engine project under your list of GitHub
    repositories — in my case at https://github.com/tvraman/speech-rule-engine.
Clone
Next, git clone the fork you just created. This is just a regular clone operation, in my case I did:
mkdir -p ~/sources/tvraman; cd ~/sources/tvraman; git clone https://github.com/tvraman/speech-rule-engine

Create Your Changes
Follow the steps from the earlier tutorials to do your work, i.e., creating a feature-branch to hold your changes,etc. Note that all this work is being done in your fork, i.e., in this example, within ~/sources/tvraman/speech-rule-engine.
Create Pull Request
When ready, open the magit-status buffer for your fork, and create the pull-request using magit/forge — in the magit status buffer, type 'cp.
Uploading The Pull Request
Now, you need to send the pull-request to the author of the project you are contributing to — this is again one of those steps that all the docs talk about pushing a button on GitHub.com. The easiest means I found to do this was via command-line tool hub:
cd ~/sources/tvraman/speech-rule-engine; hub pull-request 

Assuming you have emacsclient configured as your EDITOR, this opens
a standard commit-like message buffer that lets you complete the
action. Result: a new, shiny pull-request shows up in the target
project — in this case in zorkow/speech-rule-engine.


Sunday, May 03, 2020

Emacspeak 52.0 (WorkAtHomeDog) Unleashed!

Announcing Emacspeak 52.0—WorkAtHomeDog!

The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work. – Donald E. Knuth


1 For Immediate Release:

San Jose, CA, (May 4, 2020)


1.1 Emacspeak 52.0 (WorkAtHomeDog) 🦮 Unleashed!

— Making Telecommuting Great Again!


Advancing Accessibility In The Age Of User-Aware Interfaces — Zero
cost of Ownership makes priceless software Universally affordable!




Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK) — http://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak
— announces the immediate world-wide availability of Emacspeak 52.0
(WorkAtHomeDog) 🦮 — a powerful audio desktop that leverages today's evolving
Data, Social and Assistant-Oriented Internet cloud to enable working
effectively from anywhere!


2 Investors Note:

With several prominent tweeters expanding coverage of #emacspeak,
NASDOG: ESPK has now been consistently trading over the social net at
levels close to that once attained by DogCom high-fliers—and as of
May 2020 is trading at levels close to that achieved by once
better known stocks in the tech sector.


3 What Is It?

Emacspeak is a fully functional audio desktop that provides complete
eyes-free access to all major 32 and 64 bit operating environments. By
seamlessly blending live access to all aspects of the Internet such as
ubiquitous assistance, Web-surfing, blogging, social computing and
electronic messaging into the audio desktop, Emacspeak enables speech
access to local and remote information with a consistent and
well-integrated user interface. A rich suite of task-oriented tools
provides efficient speech-enabled access to the evolving
assistant-oriented social Internet cloud.


4 Major Enhancements:

This version requires emacs-26.1 or later.


  1. Emacs 27 Support 🤻
  2. Updated URL templates 🕷
  3. Updated websearch wizards 🧙
  4. Updated EWW support 🕸
  5. Speech-enables Emacs Chess ♕ ♔
  6. Speech-enables package Vuiet for music discovery and playback
    using LastFM 🎼
  7. Smart templates for accessing Hacker News ⎔
  8. Updated support for Emacs Ipython Notebooks 📓
  9. Works fluently with Sage Notebooks  


— And a lot more than will fit this margin. … 🗞


5 Establishing Liberty, Equality And Freedom:

Never a toy system, Emacspeak is voluntarily bundled with all
major Linux distributions. Though designed to be modular,
distributors have freely chosen to bundle the fully integrated
system without any undue pressure—a documented success for
the integrated innovation embodied by Emacspeak. As the system
evolves, both upgrades and downgrades continue to be available at
the same zero-cost to all users. The integrity of the Emacspeak
codebase is ensured by the reliable and secure Linux platform
used to develop and distribute the software.


Extensive studies have shown that thanks to these features, users
consider Emacspeak to be absolutely priceless. Thanks to this
wide-spread user demand, the present version remains priceless
as ever—it is being made available at the same zero-cost as
previous releases.


At the same time, Emacspeak continues to innovate in the area of
eyes-free Assistance and social interaction and carries forward the
well-established Open Source tradition of introducing user interface
features that eventually show up in luser environments.


On this theme, when once challenged by a proponent of a crash-prone
but well-marketed mousetrap with the assertion "Emacs is a system from
the 70's", the creator of Emacspeak evinced surprise at the unusual
candor manifest in the assertion that it would take popular
idiot-proven interfaces until the year 2070 to catch up to where the
Emacspeak audio desktop is today. Industry experts welcomed this
refreshing breath of Courage Certainty and Clarity (CCC) at a time
when users are reeling from the Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD)
unleashed by complex software systems backed by even more convoluted
press releases.


6 Independent Test Results:

Independent test results have proven that unlike some modern (and
not so modern) software, Emacspeak can be safely uninstalled without
adversely affecting the continued performance of the computer. These
same tests also revealed that once uninstalled, the user stopped
functioning altogether. Speaking with Aster Labrador, the creator of
Emacspeak once pointed out that these results re-emphasize the
user-centric design of Emacspeak; “It is the user — and not the
computer– that stops functioning when Emacspeak is uninstalled!”.


6.1 Note from Aster,Bubbles and Tilden:

UnDoctored Videos Inc. is looking for volunteers to star in a
video demonstrating such complete user failure.


7 Obtaining Emacspeak:

Emacspeak can be downloaded from GitHub — see
https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak you can visit Emacspeak on the
WWW at http://emacspeak.sf.net. You can subscribe to the emacspeak
mailing list — emacspeak@cs.vassar.edu — by sending mail to the
list request address emacspeak-request@cs.vassar.edu. The Emacspeak Blog is a good source for news about recent enhancements and how to
use them.


The latest development snapshot of Emacspeak is always available at
GitHub.


8 History:

  • Emacspeak 52.0 (WorkAtHomeDog) makes working remotely a pleasurable experience.
  • Gigger and more powerful than any smart assistAnt, AssistDog provides

instant access to the most relevant information at all times.

  • Emacspeak 50.0 (SageDog) embraces the wisdom of stability as
    opposed to rapid change and the concomitant creation of bugs.🚭: Naturally Intelligent (NI)™ at how information is spoken, Emacspeak

is entirely free of Artificial Ingredients (AI)™.

  • Emacspeak 49.0 (WiseDog) leverages the wisdom gleaned from
    earlier releases to provide an enhanced auditory experience.
  • Emacspeak 48.0 (ServiceDog) builds on earlier releases to provide
    continued end-user value.
  • Emacspeak 47.0 (GentleDog) goes the next step in being helpful
    while letting users learn and grow.
  • Emacspeak 46.0 (HelpfulDog) heralds the coming of Smart Assistants.
  • Emacspeak 45.0 (IdealDog) is named in recognition of Emacs'
    excellent integration with various programming language
    environments — thanks to this, Emacspeak is the IDE of choice
    for eyes-free software engineering.
  • Emacspeak 44.0 continues the steady pace of innovation on the
    audio desktop.
  • Emacspeak 43.0 brings even more end-user efficiency by leveraging the
    ability to spatially place multiple audio streams to provide timely
    auditory feedback.
  • Emacspeak 42.0 while moving to GitHub from Google Code continues to
    innovate in the areas of auditory user interfaces and efficient,
    light-weight Internet access.
  • Emacspeak 41.0 continues to improve
    on the desire to provide not just equal, but superior access —
    technology when correctly implemented can significantly enhance the
    human ability.
  • Emacspeak 40.0 goes back to Web basics by enabling
    efficient access to large amounts of readable Web content.
  • Emacspeak 39.0 continues the Emacspeak tradition of increasing the breadth of
    user tasks that are covered without introducing unnecessary
    bloatware.
  • Emacspeak 38.0 is the latest in a series of award-winning
    releases from Emacspeak Inc.
  • Emacspeak 37.0 continues the tradition of
    delivering robust software as reflected by its code-name.
  • Emacspeak 36.0 enhances the audio desktop with many new tools including full
    EPub support — hence the name EPubDog.
  • Emacspeak 35.0 is all about
    teaching a new dog old tricks — and is aptly code-named HeadDog in
    on of our new Press/Analyst contact. emacspeak-34.0 (AKA Bubbles)
    established a new beach-head with respect to rapid task completion in
    an eyes-free environment.
  • Emacspeak-33.0 AKA StarDog brings
    unparalleled cloud access to the audio desktop.
  • Emacspeak 32.0 AKA
    LuckyDog continues to innovate via open technologies for better
    access.
  • Emacspeak 31.0 AKA TweetDog — adds tweeting to the Emacspeak
    desktop.
  • Emacspeak 30.0 AKA SocialDog brings the Social Web to the
    audio desktop—you cant but be social if you speak!
  • Emacspeak 29.0—AKAAbleDog—is a testament to the resilliance and innovation
    embodied by Open Source software—it would not exist without the
    thriving Emacs community that continues to ensure that Emacs remains
    one of the premier user environments despite perhaps also being one of
    the oldest.
  • Emacspeak 28.0—AKA PuppyDog—exemplifies the rapid pace of
    development evinced by Open Source software.
  • Emacspeak 27.0—AKA
    FastDog—is the latest in a sequence of upgrades that make previous
    releases obsolete and downgrades unnecessary.
  • Emacspeak 26—AKA
    LeadDog—continues the tradition of introducing innovative access
    solutions that are unfettered by the constraints inherent in
    traditional adaptive technologies.
  • Emacspeak 25 —AKA ActiveDog
    —re-activates open, unfettered access to online
    information.
  • Emacspeak-Alive —AKA LiveDog —enlivens open, unfettered
    information access with a series of live updates that once again
    demonstrate the power and agility of open source software
    development.
  • Emacspeak 23.0 — AKA Retriever—went the extra mile in
    fetching full access.
  • Emacspeak 22.0 —AKA GuideDog —helps users
    navigate the Web more effectively than ever before.
  • Emacspeak 21.0
    —AKA PlayDog —continued the
    Emacspeak tradition of relying on enhanced
    productivity to liberate users.
  • Emacspeak-20.0 —AKA LeapDog —continues
    the long established GNU/Emacs tradition of integrated innovation to
    create a pleasurable computing environment for eyes-free
    interaction.
  • emacspeak-19.0 –AKA WorkDog– is designed to enhance
    user productivity at work and leisure.
  • Emacspeak-18.0 –code named
    GoodDog– continued the Emacspeak tradition of enhancing user
    productivity and thereby reducing total cost of
    ownership.
  • Emacspeak-17.0 –code named HappyDog– enhances user
    productivity by exploiting today's evolving WWW
    standards.
  • Emacspeak-16.0 –code named CleverDog– the follow-up to
    SmartDog– continued the tradition of working better, faster,
    smarter.
  • Emacspeak-15.0 –code named SmartDog–followed up on TopDog
    as the next in a continuing series of award-winning audio desktop
    releases from Emacspeak Inc.
  • Emacspeak-14.0 –code named TopDog–was

the first release of this millennium.

  • Emacspeak-13.0 –codenamed
    YellowLab– was the closing release of the
    20th. century.
  • Emacspeak-12.0 –code named GoldenDog– began
    leveraging the evolving semantic WWW to provide task-oriented speech
    access to Webformation.
  • Emacspeak-11.0 –code named Aster– went the
    final step in making Linux a zero-cost Internet access solution for
    blind and visually impaired users.
  • Emacspeak-10.0 –(AKA
    Emacspeak-2000) code named WonderDog– continued the tradition of
    award-winning software releases designed to make eyes-free computing a
    productive and pleasurable experience.
  • Emacspeak-9.0 –(AKA
    Emacspeak 99) code named BlackLab– continued to innovate in the areas
    of speech interaction and interactive accessibility.
  • Emacspeak-8.0 –(AKA Emacspeak-98++) code named BlackDog– was a major upgrade to
    the speech output extension to Emacs.
  • Emacspeak-95 (code named Illinois) was released as OpenSource on
    the Internet in May 1995 as the first complete speech interface
    to UNIX workstations. The subsequent release, Emacspeak-96 (code
    named Egypt) made available in May 1996 provided significant
    enhancements to the interface. Emacspeak-97 (Tennessee) went
    further in providing a true audio desktop. Emacspeak-98
    integrated Internetworking into all aspects of the audio desktop
    to provide the first fully interactive speech-enabled WebTop.

9 About Emacspeak:

Originally based at Cornell (NY) —
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman —home to Auditory User
Interfaces (AUI) on the WWW, Emacspeak is now maintained on GitHub
https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak. The system is mirrored
world-wide by an international network of software archives and
bundled voluntarily with all major Linux distributions. On Monday,
April 12, 1999, Emacspeak became part of the Smithsonian's Permanent
Research Collection
on Information Technology at the Smithsonian's
National Museum of American History.


The Emacspeak mailing list is archived at Vassar –the home of the
Emacspeak mailing list– thanks to Greg Priest-Dorman, and provides a
valuable knowledge base for new users.


10 Press/Analyst Contact: Tilden Labrador

Going forward, Tilden acknowledges his exclusive monopoly on
setting the direction of the Emacspeak Audio Desktop (🦮) and
promises to exercise this freedom to innovate and her resulting
power responsibly (as before) in the interest of all dogs.


*About This Release:



Windows-Free (WF) is a favorite battle-cry of The League Against
Forced Fenestration (LAFF). –see
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm for details on
the ill-effects of Forced Fenestration.


CopyWrite )C( Aster, Hubbell and Tilden Labrador. All Writes Reserved.
HeadDog (DM), LiveDog (DM), GoldenDog (DM), BlackDog (DM) etc., are Registered
Dogmarks of Aster, Hubbell and Tilden Labrador. All other dogs belong to
their respective owners.

Author: T.V Raman

Created: 2020-04-27 Mon 08:27

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