[image] Easier access to text formatting in comments Formatting buttons should now be available on Identify (thanks to a volunteer!). The same person has a pull request open for inline editing of comments and IDs with the text editor, just needs a little more work before merging. it looks good…

I think it takes more patience than skill. There are a lot of moving pieces. I keep meaning to put together some kind of remote workshop for people interested in development so we can just be around online for an afternoon / evening to help people get set up. Would that be of interest?

i’m tempted, although the realist on my shoulder says i probably would not code enough to justify the cost it would take me to learn the system and the languages involved, plus the cost for you to help get me up and running (although if you’re helping multiple other people get set up, then your cost…

There’s a pretty heavy list of dependencies you can read about at https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/wiki/Development-Setup-Guide . Most problems tend to stem from version conflict with existing installations of the same software, so isolating in a virtual machine sometimes seems like a good …

oh nice. i think the guide should be enough right now to point me in the right direction. i think had seen the link for the Development Setup Guide before on the Github repository’s main wiki page, but it was a broken link, and i never thought to look to the page links on the right side of the page.…

(moved the above to a new topic and probably wrote a mangled description for the title, feel free to correct it)

I would love to join this!.. If it was open to anyone… or I could just be a bystander ( not used Node, Ruby or React specifically yet :grimacing: but some, varying levels of experience with Java, Python, C++, Javascript, HTML, CSS…as well as time and patience…if that would be enough to get me throug…

What kind of dev environment should I have if I want to contribute to iNat?

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What kind of dev environment should I have if I want to contribute to iNat?

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