Interested in Participating

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Richard Wilbur wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 10:41 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> I have to agree with Mattheiu that we are always happy to get reports
>> from people on a different platform. We *do* want it to work everywhere.
>>
>> We are more than happy to have you around. What pieces of the puzzle are
>> you interested in? If you are just looking for something to play with,
>> feel free to email me, or join us on irc.freenode.net channel #bzr. I'll
>> be happy to give you some direction.
>>
>> There is always the TODO file in source. Though most of our real
>> tracking is done through the bug tracker:
>> https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+bugs
>>
>> But there is a lot of info there, so I'm happy to simplify it a bit to
>> make it easy for you to get started.
>>
>> John
>> =:->
>>
> John,
> 
> I am taking you up on your offer of direction/simplification.  I can
> tell there is a good quantity of code involved from reading the patches
> and merge bundles on this list.  I haven't had time to also read the
> code base, yet, but I am getting some idea of the structure.  I haven't
> been able to map the structure back to the bugs in Malone/Launchpad or
> the wiki the specifications for new features.
> 
> Do you have any ideas for good starter projects?  From the bug lists and
> specifications I can see some things that look big and others that look
> small.  I don't know which are under active development, though, and I
> can't think of a great reason to duplicate effort.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 

Sorry this took so long. Here are a few possible bugs that you might
want to look at. I can certainly give you more detailed pointers if you
are interested in any one of these. Most of them I have ideas about
possible fixes, just haven't gotten around to it.

These have to do with how bzr ignores files:

https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+bug/3780
https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+bug/4559
https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+bug/57637
https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+bug/29488

This one should be relatively straightforward. You can look at how 'bzr
inventory' is working, and follow the comments on the bug report.
https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+bug/30190

This one already has the beginnings of a patch, but it probably needs to
be updated to get it working for including in 0.12.

https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+bug/32054

This one should be a fairly simple change, just to change from using
note() to writing to stdout instead. (Actually, it should write to
Command.outf() which would need to be passed around a little bit).
https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+bug/54173

I can look around a bit more for some other possibilities if none of
these seem interesting.

John
=:->
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