bug fixes feedback for the UDS

[Shane Fagan]

Well I think thats the problem. We need a simplified you ask here or you
look here type of wiki. Czajkowski take note for tomorrow.. 

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 21:58 +0100, Barry Carroll wrote:
> 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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