[ubuntu-uk] Bug 12168 Needs a British English Speaker.

[Nick McMahon]

I'd be happy to take a look at some, but, i have no idea how/where to 
get started..if someone could point me there ill take a look but iv 
never done this before..

Nick

Ralph Corderoy wrote:

>Hi,
>
>http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12168 picks up on some
>incorrectly spelt words in aspell's British English dictionary.  I
>opened it, and Mark Florian has added a couple more.
>
>It would be nice if a British English speaker could confirm our spelling
>and move the bug on from Unconfirmed to New.
>
>Incidentally, it seems a lot of bugs, even well-reported ones with
>simple test cases, e.g. 12655, sit at Unconfirmed.  I guess this is
>because the people with time to fix bugs are too busy fixing ones at New
>to take a first pass through all those at Unconfirmed, spotting
>duplicates or explaining to the reporter why it isn't a bug.
>
>It seems an obvious thing for volunteers who can only spend 15 minutes
>here and there to help out with, but the Wiki had only a little on the
>topic.  A quick initial response to a bug report is encouraging to the
>reporter who otherwise may not report the next thing they spot.  That
>would lose a valuable source of contribution.
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>Ralph.
>
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