bug fixes feedback for the UDS

[Barry Carroll]

I sent the last message to the list from the account I wasn't
registered from - apologies for that.

I'm a developer and I've submitted some patches here and there for
ubuntu and the mainstream kernel too but for the kernel I was kindly
guided by one of the maintainers there.

I'd just like a quick start guide of some sort that would go through
the lifecycle of logging the bug and sending in the fix.  My main
interest is in getting laptops to work properly and I set up a wiki
for the samsung nc20 but I know the fixes posted there should also
make it back to the distribution itself.  I just find it hard to know
what is the correct way of going about doing so from start to finish.

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan at yahoo.ie> wrote:
> I think simplifying all the pages would be good for people like Barry.
> People who want to help but dont know where to start get confused by
> some of the terms used in the wikis like
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment
> for example. This page looks very confusing even to me who read trough
> it a good few times. I think its mainly because the style the page is
> written in. You have terms like MOTU where if you dont know what a MOTU
> is you have to go to another page. So if you dont know many of the terms
> you have a lot of tabs full of information that may not be entirely
> relivent to your original query. Even the fact there are so many pages
> is overwhelming.
>
> Shane_Fagan
>
> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 21:30 +0100, Barry Carroll wrote:
>> I'd appreciate that kind of info.  I submitted a patch against hal a
>> good while ago on launchpad and it's still in the new state.  I'd love
>> to know how to fix it properly but I found the amount of information
>> to be a bit overwhelming and I haven't had the time to dive in and
>> make sense of it all for the past while.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Barry.
>>
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan at yahoo.ie> wrote:
>> > Sorry for the spam, but I thought of some more to talk about.
>> > I think telling people how to get the branch of the package they are
>> > trying to fix and showing them how to submit a diff would be useful to
>> > people starting out making bug fixes too. Please reply and if you want
>> > to get involved but found that the area you are trying to get involved
>> > in is a little difficult to comprehend express that and czajkowski will
>> > relay that back at the talk at the UDS.
>> >
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Shane_Fagan
>> >
>> >
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