| === jbermudes_ is now known as jbermudes | ||
| === ttech is now known as Ttech | ||
| jbermudes | Is anyone here in the MOTU team? epikvision came to our Pasadena Ubuntu Hour yesterday wanting to learn how to contribute back to Ubuntu and expressed interest in MOTU | 03:49 |
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| jbermudes | He's a really cool guy who wants to help out in any way he can with Ubuntu, so be nice :) | 03:50 |
| epikvision | Haha | 03:50 |
| pleia2 | broder is core dev, but he's been very busy lately | 03:57 |
| pleia2 | http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2012/02/new-ubuntu-developers-in-the-making/ is a nice post from today about getting involved with dev :) | 03:58 |
| === Faqtotum is now known as DonkeyHotei | ||
| broder | huh what? | 05:05 |
| broder | ah. hey epikvision | 05:06 |
| epikvision | Hello! | 05:06 |
| broder | yeah, i've always felt that our answers for "what to work on" have been rather lackluster | 05:06 |
| broder | but i think the "scratch your own itch" approach is definitely the best | 05:06 |
| broder | can you think of any bugs that are affecting you personally? | 05:07 |
| epikvision | How do we identify them? | 05:07 |
| epikvision | At the moment, not much. | 05:07 |
| broder | ok. well, if you think of anything, that's almost always the most rewarding thing to work on | 05:10 |
| akk | I'm not sure just picking any random bug is the right approach. You need something where active maintainers are interested in getting patches. | 05:10 |
| broder | that certainly helps, but i think that an active ubuntu community can mediate that some, and being able to directly see the effects of your contribution is powerful | 05:11 |
| akk | Last time I submitted a patch it took 18 months to get anyone to look at it | 05:12 |
| epikvision | Im slightly confused. | 05:12 |
| akk | and then only because a friend took pity on me and wrote a script to turn it into the right kind of debdiff | 05:12 |
| epikvision | Wow. That is a pain. | 05:12 |
| broder | turn it into the right kind of debdiff> that's a different class of problem | 05:13 |
| akk | It turned out to be needed to get anyone to consider the patch. | 05:13 |
| akk | And there were 3 different types of debdiff and it wasn't obvious which one -- I wasted a full day on one only to be told it was the wrong type. | 05:14 |
| broder | well, it sounds like you took the long way around. the shorter way, which i believe all of our documentation covers, is to subscribe the ubuntu-sponsors team | 05:15 |
| akk | (I did a bzr-based thing that the packaging guide implied was the right thing to do) | 05:15 |
| akk | I was told in the bug "a debdiff is necessary if you want a sponsor" | 05:16 |
| epikvision | So broder, where can i find more info in being a help to developers like yourself? | 05:16 |
| broder | akk: then you got a crappy sponsor. i sponsor non-debdiffs from the sponsor queue | 05:17 |
| epikvision | I wanted to start as newbie packager. | 05:17 |
| akk | Things may have improved since then. That was a bit over 2 years ago. | 05:17 |
| broder | i think they generally have | 05:17 |
| akk | patch piloting and such are a great step forward -- there wasn't anything like that then | 05:18 |
| broder | epikvision: well, definitely stop by #ubuntu-motu and see what other people recommend | 05:19 |
| broder | daniel's big project has been harvest.ubuntu.com, which collects lists of bugs that meet certain criteria | 05:20 |
| broder | let's see...some of them are better than others | 05:20 |
| broder | bitesize is supposed to be the sort of thing you're looking for, but it can be hit or miss | 05:20 |
| epikvision | Alright, ill get started. Thank you sir! | 05:21 |
| === DonkeyHotei is now known as MyHorseIsAmazing | ||
| === MyHorseIsAmazing is now known as DonkeyHotei | ||
| === walden_ is now known as walden | ||
| MarkDude | Akk was saying the cali channel is set to invite only | 18:01 |
| akk | When I tried to join about 10 min ago, I got kicked off with a message, "invite-only channel". | 18:03 |
| MarkDude | :) | 18:03 |
| MarkDude | Help join the Open Source revolution, ONLY if you are invited tho :) | 18:04 |
| pleia2 | did you try to join #ubuntu-california rather than #ubuntu-us-ca | 18:08 |
| pleia2 | ? | 18:09 |
| akk | Checking my xchat settings ... | 18:09 |
| pleia2 | if you join them both you'll get an invite error on -california | 18:09 |
| pleia2 | hmm, #ubuntu-california forward seems to work ok though | 18:09 |
| akk | Yes! xchat was still set to -california | 18:10 |
| akk | though I didn't try to join both, only -california (and that works, most days) | 18:10 |
| akk | but now I've changed it to -us-ca | 18:10 |
| pleia2 | maybe the server was just being wonky | 18:10 |
| pleia2 | seems to work ok now | 18:10 |
| akk | I've seen it once before, a few months ago. And that time it persisted for an hour or two. | 18:10 |
| akk | But this time, I retried in 10 min and got in. | 18:10 |
| akk | I guess freenode has some weirdness with the name redirect. | 18:11 |
| pleia2 | yeah | 18:11 |
| cjohnston | Greetings.. now from LA | 18:38 |
| akk | greetings, cjohnston | 18:40 |
| philipballew | la, thats a nice place | 18:50 |
| cjohnston | I have family and friends down here that I'm visiting | 18:52 |
| philipballew | I was there 3 weeks ago. Good area | 19:17 |
| MarkDude | Well minus the smog | 19:17 |
| * MarkDude was just there for Scale. Would like to move to Venice Beach | 19:18 | |
| philipballew | thankfully the smog had not invaded the Hilton | 19:18 |
| MarkDude | Yes it did :D | 19:18 |
| MarkDude | We were not only in smog, we have airport next door for extra fumes - lol | 19:18 |
| * MarkDude likes *visiting* LA | 19:19 | |
| akk | I like LA, but not the area around LAX. | 19:29 |
| === negronjl` is now known as negronjl | ||
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