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Working on a submitted bug at bugs.kde.org

Gilles Leblanc

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Friday, September 10th 2004, 12:18am

Working on a submitted bug at bugs.kde.org

Hi, I would like to help debug KDE in my spare time.

I tought the best way to start would be to download and compile KDE from source, find a JJ ( junior job ) on bugs.kde.org and correct it and then find a way to submit a patch. Maybe through bugs.kde.org.

The problem is this, it seems to all JJ and all bugs are assigned to someone. I guessed this is done automaticly, so someone could be working on fixing the same bug as me.

How can I say, I want to say I am working on this JJ, I have "reserved it" so to speak ?
If I successfully chose a bug and correct it, is there a more proper way than creating an attachment on bugs.kde.org and make a patch ?

Thank you in advance for your awnsers.

tbscope

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Friday, September 10th 2004, 1:32am

To be sure if someone is already working on the bug, you can ask the person who "owns" the bug or the person that's assigned to the bug.

Usually, the person that is assigned to that bug is also assigned to hundreds of other bugs, so chances are that the bug is not yet worked on.

When you start working on such a junior job, you can simply leave a message in the bug report that you're working on it.

If you don't have cvs access, all you can do is send in patches.
But I believe the KDE developers will give you cvs access if you frequently send in patches (that work)

Gilles Leblanc

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Friday, September 10th 2004, 1:47am

Thanks