is limited involvement in development desired/possible?

[JMZ]

Hi,

I would be interested in helping with the development process, but I
haven't much time to devote to the endeavor. Until now, I have merely
developed detours around any bugs in yakkety that I have encountered so
I can keep working. If I do find bugs, where do I post the launchpad
report? On this list with url? I don't right now have the ability to
run multiple machines to test 16.04 xenial lts and yakkety at the same
time, so comparisons between the stable and unstable versions are not
possible. I won't have time to make the irc meetings. As seen, my
participation will be quite limited. Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Jordan

[Pasi Lallinaho]

Hello Jordan,

find comments inline.

Post by JMZ
Hi,
I would be interested in helping with the development process, but I
haven't much time to devote to the endeavor. Until now, I have merely
developed detours around any bugs in yakkety that I have encountered
so I can keep working. If I do find bugs, where do I post the
launchpad report? On this list with url?

With development versions, bugs that you find early in the cycle are
best reported either on this mailing list or our IRC channel. This is
because there's always packages that will break at the beginning of the
cycle that will get fixed sooner than later, and the developers want to
avoid a massive amount of bug reports.

That said, if a bug is related to a Xubuntu-specific package (eg.
Thunar), it's likely that the bug is not related to issues mentioned
above. In that case you can often report the bug on Launchpad - unless
it's reported already.

If you are not sure which case is in question, you can ask the
developers - again on this mailing list or the IRC channel. We will
happily assist reporting bugs, and I'm sure with some experience you
will become better and better with it yourself.

Finally, there's a whole section about dealing with bugs on the
contributor documentation [1] which might help you with this or that issue.

Post by JMZ
I don't right now have the ability to run multiple machines to test
16.04 xenial lts and yakkety at the same time, so comparisons between
the stable and unstable versions are not possible.

That's OK. If we need comparisons, there are totally other people who
are able to do that already.

For packages, a virtual machine installation would be fine as well
though, so if you ever decide that you want to dig deeper into
contributing, there are ways to do the comparison yourself.

Post by JMZ
I won't have time to make the irc meetings.

That's fine. The meeting minutes and logs will always be available
online after the meeting, so if there is anything you need to know, you
can find it there. If it's very important, it'll be posted on this
mailing list as well.

Post by JMZ
As seen, my participation will be quite limited. Any other ideas?

If you are running the development version and reporting any bugs you
find, you are already doing valuable work.

If you want to extend further, you could do some installation tests for
the development version. Again, that would mean likely a virtual machine
setup for you.

There's a whole section about package and ISO testing on the contributor
documentation [2] if you want to read more on that.


Obviously there's even more to do, if you or anybody else reading this
mail think(s) you'd be up for even more stuff - or something completely.

We'll happily answer any further questions you might have.

Cheers,
Pasi

[1] http://docs.xubuntu.org/contributors/qa-bugs.html
[2] http://docs.xubuntu.org/contributors/qa-testing.html
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