TravisBHartwell - Ubuntu Wiki

Summary

Linux user since 1998, Debian user since 1999 (mostly Debian Unstable), and started using Ubuntu in spring of 2006.
Started working for Canonical in February 2010 as a contractor working on Application Indicators.
Started as a Canonical employee on the Ubuntu Desktop Team as a Desktop Software Engineer in April 2010.

Latest Evolution (I hear it is faster and doesn't use as much memory)
Ability to select a track to play from Gnome Do (not just artist or album)
Working and non-buggy gmail/google accounts integration with the messaging indicator
Easier and/or additional tooling around libvirt for testing and debugging of packages
Scripts to manage the source of build dependencies of a package for easy debugging
- Including setting up gdb with proper paths
- Including setting up cscope with proper paths
Proper syncing of gmail/google accounts contacts with Ubuntu One

When there is a gap in the last known working version and the one showing the problem, either:
- start at the version prior to the reported non-working version, attempting to reproduce the error
- start at the version right after the last known working version, attempting to reproduce the error
- when you have found the version that is the boundary between working and non-working, look at the diff between the versions and start debugging there
When debugging C code, especially event-based Gtk code, it is often easier to use printf-style debugging to trace the execution of code, rather than gdb, to find out when certain functions are called
When using gdb, and you only want to see the value of a variable at a certain point, set a breakpoint at the desired line, and then immediately after, do something like this:
```
 commands
 print var
 cont
 end
```
KVM and the like are very useful for testing various circumstances like problems after upgrading from one release to another.