[19:23] <cjwatson> ev1: debconf lock> you probably want something involving passthrough
[19:26] <ev1> cjwatson: noted; thanks
[19:36] <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
[19:37] <cjwatson> feel free to start sending patches :)
[19:37] <cjwatson> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installer/Development
[19:38] <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
[19:39] <dhillon-v10> cjwatson, this one here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbiquityPreserveHome
[19:40] <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
[19:41] <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
[19:42] <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)
[19:43] <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
[19:50] <dhillon-v10> cjwatson, nah I am still here