| cjwatson | ev1: debconf lock> you probably want something involving passthrough | 19:23 |
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| ev1 | cjwatson: noted; thanks | 19:26 |
| dhillon-v10 | cjwatson, hi, I would like to get started with ubiquity development, what would be a good place to start off with, triaging bugs maybe | 19:36 |
| cjwatson | dhillon-v10: fixing bugs is more valuable for developers to spend time on than triaging them | 19:36 |
| cjwatson | feel free to start sending patches :) | 19:37 |
| cjwatson | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installer/Development | 19:37 |
| dhillon-v10 | cjwatson, yah I read the wiki pages before :) I wanted to take on the task of preserving the home directory while installation, its can be accomplished easily all that we need is like a button that tells user that it can do it, I can mostly reuse the code from guided partitioning | 19:38 |
| dhillon-v10 | cjwatson, this one here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbiquityPreserveHome | 19:39 |
| cjwatson | that won't be an easy first task | 19:40 |
| cjwatson | and it requires discussion and design, not merely implementation | 19:40 |
| dhillon-v10 | cjwatson, true :) its a pretty hard one but something that needs to be done | 19:40 |
| dhillon-v10 | cjwatson, so I should do something else then ? | 19:41 |
| cjwatson | there's a great deal of bug-fixing to be done, and I would recommend starting with that | 19:41 |
| cjwatson | we could do with people verifying that old crashes have been fixed, *including references to the commits that fixed them* (this is important; don't just say "I can't reproduce this any more" because it's very common for installer bugs to only reproduce in pretty specialised circumstances) | 19:42 |
| cjwatson | we could also do with people going through crashes that still exist and fixing them | 19:43 |
| cjwatson | don't get too enthusiastic about closing bugs, it's better for us to improve the software than to keep the bug count artificially low | 19:43 |
| cjwatson | anyway, gone | 19:43 |
| dhillon-v10 | cjwatson, nah I am still here | 19:50 |
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