[06:29] good morning [06:30] good morning [09:02] could anyone review my ppa please? [16:30] Laney: So to re-state the question, now that I'm a MOTU I'm actually having trouble finding stuff to work on and was interested how you guys find places to help [16:31] weeeeeeeell [16:31] Sponsor queue? [16:31] last week doko did an archive rebuild test and there are a ton of build failures: http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20130614-saucy.html [16:31] (two weeks ago) [16:31] Laney: I actually went through that and picked some random ones to look at [16:31] sponsoring is worthwhile too (get dholbach to put you in the patch pilot rotation) [16:31] ajmitch: here? http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/bugs/rcbugs/ is 500ing === Guest32596 is now known as med_ [16:32] Laney: You need to find the right build failures, odd Haskell test case failures are not my forte [16:32] if it weren't then that would be an interesting page [16:32] Laney: if you are not a patch pilot can you still help? [16:32] yeah, you can always sponsor whenever [16:32] I just find that piloting gives me a defined slot to sit down and go at it [16:33] Laney: I looked at the sponsor queue but most already had at least a comment by someone [16:33] Laney: is it fair game just to grab one? [16:34] yes, unless someone else is working on it [16:34] you can assign it to yourself to make that clear [16:34] Laney: perfect [16:34] another thing to work on might be seeing why stuff is stuck in saucy-proposed: http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/update_excuses.html http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/update_output.txt (quite confusing at first, no doubt) [16:34] Laney: for ftbfs, I usually look at the list and pick out something that I at least know what it is before starting to examine it [16:35] sounds like a fair way to keep interest [16:35] you might also figure out how to fix a class of error and then look for failures in that class [16:35] this rebuild might have certain problems induced by gcc-4.8 for example [16:36] or else I end up with something that was an ancient Ada compiler that was one I looked at [16:36] there's a /lot/ of stuff in universe [16:36] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/arb/+bug/1194864 might be an easy one to sponsor [16:36] Launchpad bug 1194864 in arb (Ubuntu) "Please merge arb 5.5-2 (multiverse) from Debian unstable (non-free)" [Undecided,In progress] [16:37] don't forget -v when building the source package :-) [16:37] Laney: what bug tags are you looking for there? [16:37] I just looked at http://reqorts.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sponsoring/ [16:38] towards the end since at a rough approximation being older implies that the request is hard for some reason [16:38] Laney: yep [16:38] Laney: most of those were non-universe last time I looked and I was worried about duplicate work, but I'll use this as a future resource [16:39] no harm pinging the person that commented [16:39] Laney: I'm also doing some new packages but sending direct to Debian instead via a DD [16:39] yay [16:39] My timezone kills me for pinging, by the time I have free time it's like 1am uk time, so East coast and europe are asleep :( [16:39] I guess email still works these days [16:40] quite a good idea to have an IRC bouncer or similar [16:40] then you don't have to be /there/ for people to reply to you [16:40] Laney: true, and I do have a BIP server [16:43] Laney: thanks for the ideas [16:43] Laney: there's also looking at bugs with patches and building debs/debdiffs [16:43] oh yeah, there used to be the ubuntu-review (or something) team but it kind of went away [16:44] there's a script which subscribes them to bugs with patches [16:46] I think there's still tags you can search on [16:47] https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-reviewers/+patches [16:48] obscure launchpad page HOOOOOOOOO