| Jeffrey_f | Question: HOW do you fix bugs when you aren't allowed to upload? I want to start with small things like spelling errors and small stuff. | 00:38 |
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| wgrant | Jeffrey_f: In which project? | 00:55 |
| Jeffrey_f | in general | 00:57 |
| Jeffrey_f | maybe this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1348873 | 01:00 |
| ubot5 | Ubuntu bug 1348873 in shadow (Ubuntu) ""remove" spelled as "remvoe" in "usermod -h"" [Undecided,New] | 01:00 |
| wgrant | Jeffrey_f: Ah, in Ubuntu? | 01:06 |
| cjwatson | Sending patches for that kind of thing doesn't really save anyone any time - it's no quicker to review your patch than it would be to just fix it. I'd suggest finding something a little more substantial, honestly. | 01:06 |
| cjwatson | (I mean, I understand the sentiment and I know it's necessary to start reasonably small, but maybe not quite that small ...) | 01:07 |
| wgrant | http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute/developers/ might be of interest | 01:07 |
| Jeffrey_f | Substantial will come later, getting my feet wet at this point. As I get more comfortable, I may wade a little deeper. lol | 01:08 |
| Jeffrey_f | Sometimes, the little stuff is brushed off. One had been a problem for well over 7 yrs from the bug report and the problem still exists in current source | 01:10 |
| cjwatson | Right, but you want something that people will want to spend any time reviewing, or you won't get good feedback. | 01:10 |
| cjwatson | The actual answer to your original question is to send something in patch format. | 01:10 |
| Jeffrey_f | so, how do I do that cjwatson | 01:10 |
| cjwatson | Skill zero here is learning how to search based on keywords :-) | 01:11 |
| cjwatson | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/Patches may be helpful, also http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/patches-to-packages.html, also the debdiff manual page | 01:12 |
| cjwatson | or http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/fixing-a-bug.html | 01:12 |
| Jeffrey_f | yep, In my view, even the little things count. And I just worked through those.......I will look the links over again | 01:12 |
| cjwatson | Well, I can only give advice on what I've seen work. It's up to you. | 01:13 |
| Jeffrey_f | Thanks! Advice under advisement | 01:20 |
| Jeffrey_f | So I have a branch under my login, how do I propose a merge to production code? | 02:08 |
| Jeffrey_f | I found it. needed to link a bug to my change then add a merge proposal. | 02:12 |
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| mark06 | hi, why can't I register this project if it doesn't exist? https://launchpad.net/winsparkle | 09:55 |
| mark06 | previously deleted? | 09:55 |
| lifeless | mark06: or it may exist privately; it might be blacklisted/reserved. | 09:58 |
| lifeless | mark06: I can't tell if its there-and-private | 09:59 |
| lifeless | mark06: (but wgrant et al can) | 09:59 |
| mark06 | ok thanks, so a question if I get to register it successfully... | 10:02 |
| mark06 | I want to register after this kind of attitude from the upstream developer | 10:03 |
| mark06 | https://github.com/vslavik/winsparkle/issues/18 | 10:03 |
| mark06 | since I want it translated, I need to implement it myself, then add the suggested launchpad integration for actually feeding the translations... | 10:04 |
| mark06 | the question is: I'm not the original developer, but I do not want someone else to take control over the project and block the launchpad translations I will rely upon | 10:04 |
| mark06 | so is there a chance for that to happen? | 10:05 |
| mark06 | I sincerely would not like to register but... | 10:06 |
| lifeless | uhm | 10:14 |
| lifeless | so if the upstream group came to LP and asked to unregister the project | 10:15 |
| lifeless | thats a tricky one right? | 10:15 |
| lifeless | I wouldn't want to prejudge what will happen | 10:15 |
| mark06 | If I could just build this thing myself, I'd merge it with pidgin++, I think it would make things easier actually... | 10:20 |
| mark06 | but it awesomely can only be built manually with the visual studio monster :-/ | 10:21 |
| * mark06 realizes he would need to build it anyway... | 10:26 | |
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