HardingWiki/ Projects/ New Jersey Bug Squashing Month 2008

Harding’s list of information about the 2008 New Jersey Bug Squashing Month.

Participants

  • David A. Harding
  • Jim Fisher
  • Bryan Quigley

Open Bugs

Sent Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Old Java Script Breaks ca-certifications

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ca-certificates/+bug/304995
  • Skills: package system understanding
  • Requirements: Ubuntu 8.10
  • Time estimate: 15 minutes to one hour
  • Hints: A java script was installed in the ca-certification update directory, java was probably removed, but the script wasn’t removed. Need to peg this bug to the right package and tell them to update their package removal scripts

Digikam Unable to Change Walpaper

Firefox Spewing CSS Errors on Livejournal

Tilde Won’t Start

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/304947
  • Skills: reading straces, general troubleshooting
  • Requirements: none yet
  • Time estimate: inestimatable
  • Hints: I already asked the bug reporter to send in a strace; feel free to see if you can spot his or her problem

dpkg Files List Missing Final Newline

Sent Tuesday, 2 December 2008

Find OpenSSH Patch

The Epic Battle: Compiz Versus Mothra, I Mean Tooltips

The Key is the Key

A Mail Client Starts Whenever I Plug In My Laptop Power Cord

Sent Monday, 1 December 2008

Thunderbird Removing Emails from GMail

KDE Password Change Dialog Prints Error When No Error Exists

Update ALSA Device Map

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/304206
  • Skills: internet research, minor code editing
  • Requirements: basic writing skills
  • Time estimate: 15 to 45 minutes
  • Hints: Use Google to find the device-to-label map for his hardware and provide the correct descriptions to the package maintainer

Rhythmbox Not Playing A Podcast

Sent Sunday, 31 Novemeber 2008

gedit Uses EMACS-style Search Key Combo

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/303710
  • Skills: internet searching, documenation reading, basic troubleshooting
  • Requirements: Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
  • Time estimate: five to 45 minutes
  • Hints: C-s initiates a search in EMACS; there’s a chance the user activated a emacs-compatability mode in gedit without realizing that it would change the save key combo

Rhythmbox Should Never Open in Full-screen Mode

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/303719
  • Skills: internet research, bug report writing
  • Requirements: Ubuntu Intrepid Ibix
  • Time estimate: up to two hours
  • Hints: Submit a wishlist bug in Rhythmbox’s upstream bug tracker requesting that rhytmbox never open in full-screen (F11) mode. (Check for an existing bug first.) Cross-link with this bug report, add a copy of your email to this bug report, and update this report’s status.

Fix CUPS Upgrade Script

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/303730
  • Skills: debian/ directory hacking, installing and removing packages manually, diffing
  • Requirements: Ubuntu Intrepid Ibix, access to Ubuntu Hardy Heron repositories
  • Time estimate: 15 minutes to 90 minutes, or one to five hours
  • Hints: An easy problem for anyone with experience hacking the debian build files or a great problem to learn about those files. Go back and forth between the two versions until you know exactly what’s broken, fix it, and submit a patch.

Icon Needed for Log Out Icon

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-applets/+bug/303618
  • Skills: graphics design, internet research
  • Requirements: ?
  • Time estimate: five minutes to however long it takes to make nice icons
  • Hints: Find an icon if it already exists, otherwise check for a GNOME icon policy guide and make an icon. Remember to note that you’re licensing your icon under the standard GNOME licenses.

Bugs for Harding

Subtle gedit Highlighting Brokeness After Copying

Unclutter Flickers Mouse on Scroll