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Hi Aisha, |
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On 2020/06/12 13:44, Aisha Tammy wrote: |
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> On 6/12/20 6:55 AM, Jaco Kroon wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> Can we possibly include the concept of "helping to file bug reports" here? |
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>> For example, I've got an issue (which hasn't annoyed me just quite |
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>> enough yet to put effort in) where on bootup after xdm init script |
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>> starts it takes ~2 minutes before slim login is displayed. But I don't |
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>> know enough of the workings of that to even understand if this is an |
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>> Xorg or slim (or dbus) bug ... |
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> BugDay is not for creating bugs, its for squashing them. |
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> You can create the bugs today and then if it is in one of the top voted |
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> categories (old bugs, in this case) you might be able to convince interested |
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> devs to target your specific ones. |
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Fair enough. |
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In this case I've no idea where to start with filing a sensible bug |
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though :). So what it really boils down to is that I think we need to |
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provide a way to help users help us by providing the ability to interact |
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with people (Yea, #gentoo works up to a point) that can assist with |
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basic trouble-shooting to point people towards that which could be the |
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problem to help with filing better bug reports. |
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I've been hunting a graphics terminal corruption issue with urxvt now, |
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and in the man page you get this: |
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[Please note that many X servers (and libXft) are buggy with |
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respect to "-depth 32" |
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and/or alpha channels, and will cause all sorts of graphical |
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corruption. This is |
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harmless, but we can't do anything about this, so watch out] |
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So where to from here? Researching that it seems most other similar |
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reports relate to 4th-gen intel graphics ... heck, this was even |
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attributed to pango at some point, and some other dock launcher which |
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name I can't remember now. I've now explicitly set depth to 24 so I'll |
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know soon enough if this is the issue. To confuse the matter even more, |
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I've had the same corruption using aterm, and in xterm as well. But it |
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*only* seems to happen with terminal emulators. |
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Then there is the issue I described above. |
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Currently I have another two or three *desktop* related issues that |
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plague me, none of which are easy to point where the bug may actually |
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be, so to file a bug given this is hard. |
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Anyway, count me in on bugday if I can be there at all. This should be |
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interesting. |
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Looking at the previous bug day there is one thing I don't see: |
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How does this approach work? In oher words, the lead-up and |
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organization seems to be fairly well spelt out - but how does it work on |
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the day? When does it actually start? Or is this a world-wide rolling |
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time GMT+12 starts waking up until GMT-12 starts heading to bed? This |
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is the opportunity to market the event. |
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Kind Regards, |
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Jaco |
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> Aisha |
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>> Guessing #gentoo may also be of help in regards to the above, so this is |
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>> really just a suggestion. Yes, it will generate more bugs, but |
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>> hopefully the concept will allow for creating targeted bugs rather than |
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>> overly generic difficult to trouble-shoot bugs. |
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>> Kind Regards, |
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>> Jaco |
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>> On 2020/06/11 14:41, Aisha Tammy wrote: |
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>>> # Gentoo BugDay |
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>>> Come join us over at #gentoo-bugday on freenode IRC on the first Saturday of every month |
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>>> to squash bugs and make Gentoo a bit more awesome. |
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>>> You don't need to be a Gentoo developer or even a coder to help us on BugDay. |
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>>> Our next BugDay is on 4th July 2020 and we have started making preparations for |
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>>> selecting and prioritizing bug categories for that day. |
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>>> ## Bug categories |
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>>> The bug categories should be broad enough that there will be a lot of bugs being |
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>>> targeted. |
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>>> We keep a option poll open to everybody to help us narrow down the categories of bugs to focus. |
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>>> The opinion poll is there to get an input from everyone about how to best tackle the |
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>>> current bug situation and get an understanding of the community and developer priorities. |
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>>> The poll is open at https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/Bugday_2020-07-04/ |
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>>> Be sure to vote in the poll to get your opinion heard. |
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>>> ## For developers |
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>>> Even if you have never coded for Gentoo you can help us with your experience. |
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>>> It's always valuable to have your experience to guide us. |
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>>> Things to help with |
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>>> - Find a related bug that piques your interest. |
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>>> - Look at upstream if this has been reported to them. |
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>>> - If not, make a bug report to the upstream developers. |
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>>> - If they have already seen it, check if they have managed to patch it. |
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>>> - If not, try to gather as much information as you can about the bug so that |
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>>> it may help the developer tackling it. |
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>>> - Alert us at #gentoo-bugday and interact with us to see if this can be squashed. |
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>>> ## For users |
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>>> Users are one of the most important part of Gentoo and this is the occasion for |
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>>> them to talk the developers and make your bugs looked at. |
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>>> Take a look at the categories for BugDay at the poll link and the final BugDay |
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>>> wiki page |
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>>> - Find a related bug that you have experienced and has not been fixed yet |
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>>> - Try to see how it can be reproduced.Gnome not doing proper logins on you laptop? |
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>>> - The related bug reports have been ignored for months you say? |
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>>> Come poke us about these bugs at #gentoo-bugday on the freenode IRC and we will |
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>>> begin squashing any of |
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>>> those that are pending. |
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>>> ## Whats in it for me? |
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>>> Bragging rights, permanently being listed on the charts of BugDay, sense of entitlement. |
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>>> Any person who helps us solve valid problems will be given the honor of being listed on |
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>>> the page. |
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>>> Even users who help related bugs and find links which make our problem solving easier |
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>>> will be put on a pedestal. |
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>>> ## Contributors |
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>>> Thanks a lot to jstein@ for being the gracious organizer and making sure everything |
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>>> goes smoothly. |
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>>> And special thanks to contributors who have worked on our previous BugDays. |
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>>> Past contributors: |
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>>> - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bugday_2020-06-06 |
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> |