General

This page tries to sum up our experience with organising bug fixing initiatives for Ubuntu developers.

Sources

Please list ideas for easy and achievable tasks for new

• http://lintian.ubuntuwire.org/quantal/tags/spelling-error-in-description.html

  • Instructions:

    • run bzr branch ubuntu:<packagename>

    • edit the debian/control file

    • fix the spelling mistake

    • run dch -i to document the change you did

    • For Ubuntu-only packages:

      • run debcommit

      • run bzr push lp:~<your LP ID>/ubuntu/quantal/<source package>/typo-fix

      • run bzr lp-propose

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-gcc-4.7;users=debian-gcc@lists.debian.org

  • Instructions

    • Some hints on fixing these issues can be found at http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/porting_to.html

    • To build with GCC 4.7, either set CC=gcc-4.7 CXX=g++-4.7 explicitly, or install the gcc, g++, gfortran, ... packages from quantal.

    • use the patch system if available

    • submit your changes to Debian

• SecurityTeam/HighlightedPackages

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.subscriber=ubuntu-reviewers&field.tag=patch

We might want to have a look at http://upsilon.cc/~zack/hacking/debian/rcbw/