Edubuntu bugs and you

[Bruno Coudoin]

Hi all,

I just tested GCompris 84.12 as shipped on the latest Ubuntu 9.10 Beta
and did not found any bugs.

The only point I can see is that gnucap is not in the dependency.
GCompris display an error message with a good explanation when you enter
the electricity activity thus it is acceptable. Anyway, if possible I
recommend adding it as a dependency to avoid confusing our users. It may
happen that the person installing GCompris won't use it and won't notice
and the person using it will notice but may not have the knowledge or
the right to install gnucap.

Bruno.


Le dimanche 27 septembre 2009 à 09:49 -0400, Jordan Mantha a écrit :
> With the release of Edubuntu 9.10 coming closer every day I would like
> to throw out a relatively simple way people can be helping make
> Edubuntu better: working in the bug tracker. First of all, this
> doesn't mean fixing bugs and coding (although that's always wonderful
> too). What Edubuntu actually needs is people who can spend a little
> time working in our bug tracker (on Launchpad, the best view is [0])
> verifying bug reports, getting enough information from bug reports for
> developers to take action, and forwarding software bugs to the
> "upstream" authors. Even finding and merging duplicate reports is a
> great help. The Ubuntu Bugsquad had written some great documentation
> on how to get this done. [1]
> 
> It is significantly easier to get bugs fixed prior to the final
> release than trying to get things fixed in -updates, so if you want to
> make sure Edubuntu is working for you, please consider doing yourself
> and others a favor and spend a few minutes working on the bug tracker.
> Even an hour here or there on an evening or weekend would make a big
> difference. If you're interested in taking it to the next level,
> consider joining the Edubuntu Bugsquad [2]. You then will receive all
> the emails from bug reports on Edubuntu packages and many thanks from
> Edubuntu developers and users.
> 
> We currently have 290 listed open bugs. I would love to see this < 100
> in the coming months, especially as we work our way to Edubuntu 10.04
> which will be a Long Term Support release. Here is the list of
> packages that have ten or more open bugs right now:
> 
>   * edubuntu-meta (11) - I'm going to start "triaging" these today
>   * gcompris (11) - Debian and upstream developers are generally
> responsive and helpful, we should be able to squash these
>   * gpaint (12) - tends to be somewhat buggy, not sure what the
> upstream status is. It would be good to have a comprehensive list of
> "what's wrong"
>   * kdeedu (17) - a flagship Edu suite. A number of bugs could be from
> KDE 3 -> KDE4 transition. Upstream is great to work with, no reason we
> can't squash a lot of these. Kubuntu developers are a great resource
> too.
>   * kino (20) - similar to gpaint
>   * ltsp (80) - critical package and has the most bug reports
> currently. We have a dedicated maintainer (Stephane Graber) but he
> definitely needs as many hands as possible wading through these bugs.
>   * moodle (20) - traditionally a fairly difficult package. We could
> really use some testers to verify these bugs.
>   * screem (25) - ditto from kino and gpaint
>   * scribus (14) - number of crashers and unverified bug reports. This
> should be a fairly good place to start.
>   * tuxpaint (11) - upstream is pretty good about getting fixes, we
> need to verify bugs still exist and forward the rest
> 
> These packages account for 3/4 of Edubuntu's bugs. If we squashed even
> half of them we'd have 1/3 less bug reports!
> 
> -Jordan
> 
> [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/~edubuntu-bugs/+packagebugs
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage
> [2] https://launchpad.net/~edubuntu-bugs
> 

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