| fully_human | Hello. I'd like to get involved with bug tacking. I'm to the point of running through this tutorial (https://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/fixing-a-bug-example.html) but I'm a bit confused when I try to find a bug in launchpad to tackle. I see the bug sometimes assigned to a user even though the bug is labeled "NEW" and they date back to 2010. | 01:38 |
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| TheLordOfTime | fully_human: but don't expect infinitely-prompt responses in heere :p | 01:38 |
| fully_human | Alright. :) | 01:38 |
| penguin42 | fully_human: 'new' is no one has triaged it | 01:38 |
| penguin42 | fully_human: There are zillions of bugs coming in and not enough people to do anything with them | 01:39 |
| penguin42 | fully_human: All help appreciated! | 01:39 |
| TheLordOfTime | i think his question, penguin42... | 01:39 |
| TheLordOfTime | is why there's a "NEW" bug with a user assigned to it already | 01:39 |
| penguin42 | oh with an assigned? | 01:39 |
| TheLordOfTime | only reaosn i can think of is that they had initially set it as "Incomplete" and were going to handle it. | 01:39 |
| fully_human | That was part of it, mainly I was wondering when I would step on somebody's toes. | 01:39 |
| TheLordOfTime | and then it was reset to new. | 01:39 |
| penguin42 | fully_human: which bug? | 01:40 |
| TheLordOfTime | damn it stop erry-ing me! | 01:40 |
| TheLordOfTime | penguin42: ^ | 01:40 |
| TheLordOfTime | ... aw heck, i broke znc's packaging again... | 01:41 |
| TheLordOfTime | fooey *diverts attention to his local builder* | 01:41 |
| penguin42 | hehe | 01:41 |
| fully_human | I don't have one in mind specifically: right now I'm browsing launchpad for a bug in order to get my feet wet. | 01:41 |
| TheLordOfTime | we were asking what bug, because we were going to look at it. | 01:42 |
| TheLordOfTime | in regards to the "old but assigned" example | 01:42 |
| penguin42 | fully_human: Maybe pick a package you know well, or problem type you've seen | 01:42 |
| TheLordOfTime | ^ that | 01:42 |
| TheLordOfTime | problem is a lot of the bugs are highly technical... so you'd need indepth knowledge of the code or debugging for that package. | 01:45 |
| TheLordOfTime | case in point: most of the php5 bugs are segvs. | 01:45 |
| fully_human | Ew. :P | 01:45 |
| fully_human | Yeah, I just discovered one bug with SeaHorse that I might tackle. | 01:46 |
| TheLordOfTime | link? | 01:46 |
| fully_human | I mean filestarter. | 01:47 |
| fully_human | *firestarter. | 01:47 |
| TheLordOfTime | link? | 01:47 |
| TheLordOfTime | :P | 01:47 |
| fully_human | Trying to find a link. | 01:47 |
| TheLordOfTime | just give us the bug number if you hve it | 01:47 |
| penguin42 | fully_human: If you give a bug number the bot will give the link - e.g. bug 1 | 01:47 |
| ubot2 | Launchpad bug 1 in Ubuntu "Microsoft has a majority market share" [Critical,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1 | 01:47 |
| TheLordOfTime | i tend to be more verbose than penguin42... | 01:48 |
| TheLordOfTime | LP Bug 1113888 | 01:48 |
| ubot2 | Launchpad bug 1113888 in libreoffice (Ubuntu) "package libreoffice-writer 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: cannot copy extracted data for './usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libswlo.so' to '/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libswlo.so.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream" [Undecided,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1113888 | 01:48 |
| TheLordOfTime | :) | 01:48 |
| TheLordOfTime | just as an example :P | 01:48 |
| penguin42 | ah I only prefix if I need to use non-lp | 01:48 |
| TheLordOfTime | yeah i fell in the habit of autoprefixing | 01:48 |
| TheLordOfTime | so *I* know which one i'm talking about :P | 01:48 |
| fully_human | Here's a good one: bug 66674 | 01:49 |
| ubot2 | Launchpad bug 66674 in firestarter (Ubuntu) "--start-hidden not supported" [Wishlist,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/66674 | 01:49 |
| fully_human | It's related to the bug I noticed in that there's no unity support. | 01:50 |
| TheLordOfTime | FYI Wishlist | 01:51 |
| penguin42 | nasty; so the gnome bug was closed as wontfix because from their eyes it's pretty dead | 01:51 |
| TheLordOfTime | and that's a really old bug | 01:51 |
| TheLordOfTime | and upstream marked "Won't Fix" | 01:52 |
| TheLordOfTime | and tbh i think Firestarter's pretty dead | 01:52 |
| fully_human | Oh, I just remembered a page on the ubuntu wiki of quick bugs...I forget the URL, though. | 01:52 |
| fully_human | TheLordOfTime: Yeah, I saw in reviews that it's not maintained anymore...but I wanted a challenge. :) | 01:52 |
| TheLordOfTime | fully_human: if upstream doesn't maintain it i think we need to Not a Bug it.. | 01:53 |
| TheLordOfTime | hmm...... | 01:53 |
| TheLordOfTime | so taht's in universe... | 01:53 |
| penguin42 | fully_human: Generally Ubuntu doen't carry patching for docs stuff - it tries to get it upstream | 01:53 |
| TheLordOfTime | *checks with MOTU* | 01:53 |
| TheLordOfTime | agreed with penguin42 | 01:53 |
| TheLordOfTime | meh i'll leave motu alone :P | 01:54 |
| TheLordOfTime | i bother them enough. | 01:54 |
| fully_human | How about this? bug 874259 | 01:54 |
| ubot2 | Launchpad bug 874259 in shotwell (Ubuntu) "shotwell crashed with SIGSEGV in photo_import_developed_backing_photo()" [Medium,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/874259 | 01:54 |
| TheLordOfTime | wheee segv bugs! | 01:54 |
| penguin42 | segv's are much more fun | 01:56 |
| fully_human | Yup, I've programmed in C...I know. | 01:56 |
| TheLordOfTime | i hate em | 01:56 |
| TheLordOfTime | that doesn't even look like its been upstreamed... | 01:57 |
| fully_human | Good 'ol valgrind never let me down. :-) | 01:57 |
| penguin42 | fully_human: OK, so reasonably easy to triage; you can set importance, and you can ask the user if it still happens - it's old | 01:57 |
| * penguin42 loves fixing segfaults - dead easy if they're repeatable | 01:57 | |
| penguin42 | but there again I grovel through machine code for fun :-) | 01:57 |
| TheLordOfTime | penguin42: correctionL: they can ask to have importance set. not everyone's bugcontrol like you and I | 01:57 |
| penguin42 | true | 01:57 |
| fully_human | Cool, thanks. I may have to head to eat any minute. | 01:58 |
| fully_human | Thank you for helping me understand this. I can't wait to help! :-) | 01:58 |
| * TheLordOfTime yawns, and goes to pour himself another cup of coffee | 01:58 | |
| penguin42 | (says he sitting with a screenfull of disassembly...) | 01:58 |
| TheLordOfTime | lol | 01:58 |
| penguin42 | right, time for bed | 02:02 |
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