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=== A first time developer ===

=== A first time developer ===

It is perfect understandable if you are approaching this for the first time, with a burning desire to solve a specific musical dilemma with code. Treat it as an opportunity to learn. It is a process that can, at first, appear overly involved and, perhaps, a little bureaucratic, but there are good reasons for the approach that's taken. It has succeeded to keep track of enormous code bases securely, sometimes in the face of actively hostile actions by others. It is this very characteristic that means that many open source projects operate that way, and may give people an insight into quite what 'open source code visible to all really' means for us.  Also

It is perfect understandable if you are approaching this for the first time, with a burning desire to solve a specific musical dilemma with code. Treat it as an opportunity to learn. It is a process that can, at first, appear overly involved and, perhaps, a little bureaucratic, but there are good reasons for the approach that's taken. It has succeeded to keep track of enormous code bases securely, sometimes in the face of actively hostile actions by others. It is this very characteristic that means that many open source projects operate that way, and may give people an insight into quite what 'open source code visible to all really' means for us.   

this robustness should resolve you of fears about 'doing some damage'. This well walked path of forking a repository, and making a Pull request protects you the community from yourself in an agreed fashion.  

Also this robustness should resolve you of fears about 'doing some damage'. This well walked path of forking a repository, and making a Pull request protects you the community from yourself in an agreed fashion.  

This project, Zynthian, is based predominately in the python language with various whirling bits of C & C++ doing the heavily mechanical tasks down in the bowls where life is cheap, and code turns precisely. The python is a much more starter friendly world where you define what you want to do, and this gets translated into the sort of coal one can feed into the boilers down below.  

This project, Zynthian, is based predominately in the python language with various whirling bits of C & C++ doing the heavily mechanical tasks down in the bowls where life is cheap, and code turns precisely. The python is a much more starter friendly world where you define what you want to do, and this gets translated into the sort of coal one can feed into the boilers down below.  

and there are code editors that operate entirely round the command line, allowing you to change the contents of files on the machine.  

and there are code editors that operate entirely round the command line, allowing you to change the contents of files on the machine.  

Here there is no protection. it's your machine and you can break it as you wish, and whilst you will almost certainly get help on the discourse forum, this is not the sort of activity to indulge in twenty five minutes before your performance. It easy to become the essential technician beloved and feared in equal measure, but probably the first concept to learn is stable. . .  

 

Here there is no protection. it's your machine and you can break it as you wish, and whilst you will almost certainly get help on the discourse forum, this is not the sort of activity to indulge in twenty five minutes before your performance. It easy to become the essential technician beloved and feared in equal measure, but probably the first concept to learn is stable. . .  

Stable is the particular branch of code that is know good and behaves in a fashion that will match the documentation.

Stable is the particular branch of code that is know good and behaves in a fashion that will match the documentation.

It wont be cutting edge, but it will behave itself, precisely as you expect, during the performance so this is what you should be initially taking on stage.  

It wont be cutting edge, but it will behave itself, precisely as you expect, during the performance so this is what you should be initially taking on stage.  

The good news is if you can get enough of a Zynthian running to open up it's inbuilt webserver, forever known as webconf in these parts, you can select an option that will allow you to return to the stable state. This is your protection from your own misdeeds with code.In fact it is sensible to keep at least two ssd's with a known good stable version on so you can give the zynth a brain change and keep a separate ssd for your code projects. You have been warned!

The good news is if you can get enough of a Zynthian running to open up it's inbuilt webserver, forever known as webconf in these parts, you can select an option that will allow you to return to the stable state. This is your protection from your own misdeeds with code.In fact it is sensible to keep at least two ssd's with a known good stable version on so you can give the zynth a brain change and keep a separate ssd for your code projects. You have been warned!