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authorJoey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2018-11-05 14:38:32 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2018-11-05 14:38:32 -0400
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followup on bug triage
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@@ -25,12 +25,20 @@ Many bugs are also filed without enough information
to reproduce the problem, and need to be tagged moreinfo and a comment
posted asking the submitter for details.
+Once a bug is confirmed to be reproducible, it becomes a lot easier to fix.
+So it's very helpful to highlight such bugs.
+
Joey spends a lot of time dealing with this kind of bug triage. If you can
-take the time to pick a bug that is not marked as "confirmed" or "moreinfo"
+take the time to pick a bug that is not tagged as "confirmed" or "moreinfo"
from the list of [[bugs]], try to reproduce it and follow up either
confirming that the problem exists, or asking the submitter for more info,
you'll make Joey more productive!
+You can add and modify tags by editing the bug's page with this wiki code:
+
+ \[[!taglink confirmed]]
+ \[[!taglink moreinfo]]
+
## code contributions
[[download]] the source code, [[build|install/fromsource]] it
@@ -40,9 +48,8 @@ If you know Haskell, git-annex has lots of Haskell code that
could be improved. See the [[coding_style]] and have at it.
If you don't know Haskell, git-annex has many other coding opportunities.
-You could work to improve the Android port (Java etc) or improve the
-Javascript and CSS of the git-annex webapp, or work on porting libraries
-needed by the Windows port.
+You could work to improve the Javascript and CSS of the git-annex webapp,
+or work on porting libraries needed by the Windows port.
To send patches, either include the patch in a [[bug|bugs]] report (small
patch) or put up a branch in a git repository containing your changes.