Something more than nothing
Fri 16 Apr 2010
The benefits of oops reports and test driven development
Posted by curtis under Launchpad
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Today I fixed a bug where users could not link a project series to package in an older Ubuntu series. I reported the bug when working with Javier to clean up the duplicate glade projects registered in Launchpad. We both got oopses when we tried to fix the packaging links from the project’s packaging form. [...]
Thu 15 Apr 2010
Fixing the bug tracker widget
Posted by curtis under Launchpad
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The Launchpad registry had a sprint in March 2010 to solve project registration issues. The topic was broadly set to be “drive through project creation”, but the goal was to allow a community to provide project information at the time of need. For example, a user wants to report a bug about a package in [...]
Wed 14 Apr 2010
The collective madness of setting the bug tracker for an upstream project.
Posted by curtis under Launchpad
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This IRC transcript illustrates the pain of setting the upstream bug tracker, and the agony of defeat when you succeed.
<bac> sinzui: Remind me how do you set/determine the bug tracker for a project?
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/claws-mail shows one but i cannot find it on the project.
Visit the front page of Launchpad Bugs <bac> check
Follow the link to Bug [...]
Mon 12 Apr 2010
Launchpad is often perceived to be a project hosting service. Some perceive Launchpad is a directory of packages in Ubuntu. Both views are incomplete and often lead to misunderstandings about how Launchpad can be used, and buy whom. I think the best summary of what Launchpad does is that it hosts open source communities.
From it [...]
Sat 10 Apr 2010
I think the next bug for me to work on after hours is
bug #250103 [Teams cannot delete old email addresses]
This causes users and myself a lot of problems. While you can change a team email address in Launchpad, it never deletes the old one. It is kept and it is hidden so that it can [...]
Thu 8 Apr 2010
gedit-developer-plugins-0.4.0 (2.30.0) is released
Posted by curtis under Gedit
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This release replaces the snippet-based completer with a GTKSourceView-basedCompletionProvider.
The python completer has rudimentary documentation in the info window that you can see using the Details button. This feature will be improved in future releases.
Find searches application and xml files like javascript. Find was skipping some file types that gedit can edit that do not have [...]
Fri 16 Feb 2007
Localizing standard directories, or nautilus .hidden hacks
Posted by curtis under Sinzui
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There has been a interesting discussion about localizing standard directory names for applications on GNOME’s desktop-devel-list. The discussion is under the ‘Call for a Gnome Media Center‘ thread. There is a lot of well meant suggestions about mapping a Music folder to another name.
I don’t think this is a GNOME problem though. This is a [...]
Mon 15 Jan 2007
Firstly, let me apologize to everyone who has heard of the birth from others instead of Anne or myself. We have had a very hectic two weeks, and have had little time for anyone but our children.
Tristan Alexander Lawrence-Hovey was born on January 9, 2007 at 5:58 EST. He weighed 7lb 13.8oz in anachronistic measuring [...]
Sat 11 Feb 2006
Hello world!
Posted by curtis under Sinzui
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Tue 8 Mar 2005
Control-Click to select, WTF?
Posted by curtis under web
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My group is rebuilding one of our websites, and the UI is getting some serious attention. The business and technical groups came to an early decision that we would not be using multi-select listboxes. They alway require special instruction to use, and they are difficult to use for many users. I don’t know how long [...]