| LaserJock | evening all | 01:56 |
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| LaserJock | sbalneav: ping | 16:44 |
| LaserJock | ok, we need testers!! | 17:34 |
| openyost | Does anyone know if it is too late to..... | 17:34 |
| LaserJock | http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/dvd/20091021/ | 17:34 |
| openyost | Ok nevermind LaserJock answered my question | 17:34 |
| LaserJock | openyost: to late for what? | 17:34 |
| openyost | I was about to ask about testing | 17:35 |
| LaserJock | we need http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/build/edubuntu/all | 17:35 |
| LaserJock | filled out using the DVD from http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/dvd/20091021/ | 17:36 |
| fasthans | hello highvoltage | 20:58 |
| fasthans | sbalneav told me to come here if I want to help and mentioned your name | 20:59 |
| LaserJock | fasthans: what kinds of things are you interested in? | 21:01 |
| fasthans | well I am new | 21:01 |
| fasthans | I don't know yet where I can best help | 21:01 |
| fasthans | I have a few computers and I am constantly wiping and installing something... | 21:02 |
| LaserJock | fasthans: well, why don't you tell us a little about yourself and we can see | 21:02 |
| fasthans | I did that yesterday, but no sweat ;-) | 21:02 |
| LaserJock | ah, sorry for the repeat | 21:03 |
| fasthans | I am programming in java, groovy, beanshell with apache velocity. java servlets, webapps. I am building a datawarehouse based on infobright/mysql and pentahoe. I do a lot of data migration jobs, work with databases, creating interfaces. work with windows and linux but mainly linux | 21:04 |
| fasthans | ... and I am teching linux at our local school of our little town since two years using edubuntu | 21:04 |
| fasthans | teaching I meant to say | 21:04 |
| LaserJock | cool | 21:05 |
| fasthans | I came to edubuntu and ltsp because the school forbid to touch the existing system | 21:05 |
| fasthans | so I put together a server and hooked up the clients and bootet 15 clients to the surprise of the head of school and the math techer ;-) | 21:06 |
| LaserJock | heh | 21:07 |
| fasthans | mean while they learned to appreciate the alternative... | 21:07 |
| fasthans | so. I want to help. | 21:07 |
| fasthans | but difficult to find where to start. so many new people, many things I don't know or understand. | 21:08 |
| fasthans | the company I work for is heavy in windows. this year - after 4 years I worked there - I made it get some linux redhat 64 bit servers. my company is also heavy into Citrix | 21:10 |
| fasthans | and thin clients... | 21:11 |
| fasthans | and I working on replacing all that with linux and thin clients one day... maybe in the next 50 years..... | 21:12 |
| fasthans | its a long way the top if you wanna ... (anyone know this song?) | 21:13 |
| LaserJock | fasthans: ok, so you've got some LTSP experience | 21:13 |
| LaserJock | fasthans: got some technical experience | 21:13 |
| fasthans | yes. some | 21:13 |
| LaserJock | those are good | 21:13 |
| fasthans | I have a running system so I don't touch it too much. | 21:13 |
| fasthans | I have to teach each week on this system. | 21:14 |
| fasthans | but now I have a seperae system at home. not qute the same, but I can test things here. | 21:14 |
| LaserJock | fasthans: the main areas are: testing, bug triage, packaging, documentation (which includes wiki work, edubuntu.org website, and/or docbook), artwork | 21:15 |
| fasthans | ok. lets see | 21:15 |
| fasthans | testing I could do. is this more testing of individual software or a whole distribution? | 21:16 |
| LaserJock | any of it | 21:16 |
| fasthans | what is bug triage? (I am german ) | 21:16 |
| fasthans | no artwork. please if you don't want to upset people | 21:17 |
| LaserJock | "triage" is a term used like in a war when the medics go through the wounded and figure out priority, and make sure immediate things are done | 21:17 |
| LaserJock | so bug triage is the process where you take an initial bug report and you essentially turn it into something the developers (doctors) can fix or work on | 21:18 |
| fasthans | I am not a native englisch speaking person. I do speak english quite well I think, but I don't know if it is enough for documentation purposes. | 21:18 |
| fasthans | you verify the existence of the bug and look for solutins? | 21:18 |
| LaserJock | and ask for needed info | 21:19 |
| LaserJock | https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/~edubuntu-bugs/+packagebugs | 21:19 |
| fasthans | that sound interesting. good for a pea counter like me... | 21:19 |
| fasthans | but where do I start. | 21:19 |
| LaserJock | the link above lists Edubuntu packages | 21:20 |
| LaserJock | and gives their open bug count | 21:20 |
| fasthans | yes. I have seen that yesterday. and I have an account. I looked through some of the listed items yesterday. | 21:20 |
| LaserJock | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage | 21:20 |
| LaserJock | ^^ is some good instructions on triaging bugs | 21:20 |
| fasthans | ok tks. | 21:21 |
| LaserJock | I think the thing we need most right now is to go through the whole list | 21:21 |
| LaserJock | and get rid of the old bugs | 21:21 |
| LaserJock | like ones where the people never responded to give needed info | 21:21 |
| fasthans | those are only edubuntu related issues? | 21:21 |
| LaserJock | fasthans: that first link I gave you, yeah | 21:22 |
| LaserJock | as you can see there's ~ 270 open bugs | 21:22 |
| fasthans | ok. I can do that. what is the right way to list and communicate my findings? | 21:22 |
| LaserJock | to start with, if somebody is around here you can just ask | 21:23 |
| fasthans | ok. | 21:23 |
| LaserJock | also #ubuntu-bugs is the central channel for bug work for the whole Ubuntu project | 21:23 |
| LaserJock | they can give help too if it's a bit dead in here | 21:23 |
| fasthans | but please don't be angry if I produce a lot of questions. | 21:23 |
| LaserJock | heh | 21:23 |
| LaserJock | don't worry about that | 21:24 |
| fasthans | you will need to have some patience with me. | 21:24 |
| LaserJock | you have to realize, we were all just like you at one point | 21:24 |
| LaserJock | we don't mind questions | 21:24 |
| fasthans | ok. so I will try to provide a daily dose of my 2 cents... | 21:24 |
| LaserJock | I'm going to be coming and going a little here, I'm trying to get some experiments done | 21:25 |
| Lns | fasthans: you have a lot of db experience? this is a shot in the dark, but i know for one it would be REALLY nice to have a user progress mechanism in tuxtype. (join #tux4kids) | 21:25 |
| LaserJock | but if you ask, I'll answer at some point | 21:25 |
| fasthans | I can do some translation work if that is necessary - german and italian. | 21:25 |
| fasthans | lns: yes I work every dy with databases. | 21:26 |
| fasthans | lns, but reduced it mainly to mysql and infobright. | 21:26 |
| Lns | fasthans: if you enjoy it this might be a good project to help out the tux4kids apps.. typing tutors are a big thing in schools obviously and having a progress tracking system in open source typing tutors like tuxtype would be phenominal | 21:27 |
| fasthans | yes no problem. | 21:27 |
| fasthans | I will check out the #tux4kids room | 21:28 |
| LaserJock | darn it, this DVD is kicking my butt | 21:39 |
| flint | highvoltage, I am UTC incapable... when / where is your next meeting? | 22:55 |
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