| lukesoft | Hi Guys, Really trying to get going with contributing to ubuntu......but iam getting some bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/+branch/ubuntu/tomboy/". | 07:06 |
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| lukesoft | can you pliz point me in the right direction, i believe i set up my dev env correcly | 07:06 |
| Rhonda | Hmm. If I update the trusty-backports package of wesnoth-1.12 with a version from xenial, I will have to also propose a backport for vivid and wily, right? | 08:46 |
| lukemadzedze | guys which languages are used mostly if i want to contribute to ubuntu-motu | 09:24 |
| lukemadzedze | programming languages | 09:24 |
| Laney | lukemadzedze: any, it depends on what the program is written in | 09:32 |
| lukemadzedze | Laney: thank you very much | 09:34 |
| lukesoft | guys is there a way to find out which language a package is developed in, before i start trying to fixing its bug...or even downloading the sorces | 14:48 |
| lukesoft | is there a way of know the language used in a package, before downloading the sources....i want to try out fixing a bug or 2 but only if its a java application...but i dont seem to see any other way to know its a java programm before downloading the sources | 21:41 |
| rbasak | lukesoft: if you have deb-src lines in sources.list, use apt-cache showsrc and examine its build dependencies, maybe? | 21:50 |
| rbasak | You will need to understand how those map to languages, and a C compiler won't be explicit in there as it's build-essential. | 21:50 |
| rbasak | (maybe C++ too, I'm not sure) | 21:50 |
| rbasak | lukesoft: it's hard to categories because source packages could use multiple languages. Most distro engineers handle many languages, so there's there's never been a need to classify them. | 21:51 |
| lukesoft | rbasak: Thanks a lot ey, i am a java developer with very limmited understanding of c++ and c, iam really desperate to start working on my first bug or 2, so naturally i would love to work on a java project for practice .......but i cant find any package written in java, to use for practice, and iam getting a bit demotivated as all the other languages a really looking like greek to me | 21:57 |
| lukesoft | all the other languages *are really looking like greek to me | 21:58 |
| lukesoft | :( | 21:58 |
| rbasak | lukesoft: Ubuntu has a ton of Java work that needs doing, but unfortunately it may be too much in the deep end for you right now. | 21:59 |
| rbasak | lukesoft: I don't know much about the Java side of things, but you might be able to use "reverse-depends -b" to find things that require some named java package to build. That would maybe give you a helpful list. | 22:00 |
| rbasak | lukesoft: perhaps look at bugs against tomcat7 and tomcat8? | 22:00 |
| lukesoft | rbasak:Thanks a lot, let me try that for now, if i fail, i can always try my level best with everything else........after all i mainly want to do this to learn :) | 22:02 |
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