Comments on: Fixing Bugs The Opportunistic Way

By: jono

jono — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:41:54 +0000

Very possibly, but right now the first cut of the tool is focused on Launchpad.

By: heng

heng — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:40:00 +0000

This looks awesome.

A couple of questions...

Can one only offer bug fixes by modification of files or are new files possible? In which case, is there a nice "opportunistic" way of adding files?

How does this integrate with a build system? It would be awesome if one could build and install a local deb from the bug fixed version without breaking everything, with a nice clicky gui.

By: Gerv

Gerv — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:03:55 +0000

You write: "Click the Fetch Project button and a dialog pops up where you can type in a project name which is hosted on Launchpad".

Will it ever be possible to use this great workflow to fix bugs for applications which Ubuntu ships but which don't do their source control in Launchpad?

Gerv

By: SjB

SjB — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:59:17 +0000

I really like this ideal. Opportunistic Developers, will sure start adding more software to launchpad. My question is does Ubuntu have a process to push these apps to the Software Centre? I really wouldn’t want to have to add all these ppa.

By: Patryk "patrys" Zawadzki

Patryk "patrys" Zawadzki — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:39:50 +0000

Any plans for a similar tool for {git,bugzilla}.gnome.org?

By: Paul Kishimoto

Paul Kishimoto — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:23:33 +0000

I really like David Siegel’s ideas (http://davidsiegel.org/improving-bug-workflow-for-opportunistic-programmers/) of popping open your editor-or-IDE-of-choice at the “Add/Edit/Delete files” stage of this workflow (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OpportunisticDeveloperWorkflow#Workflows%20as%20Flowchart), and a browser plugin that lets you kickstart this whole process directly from a Launchpad page (i.e. removing the step of firing up a GC dialog to copy the bug ID into).

I hope those features make it into this at some point, but it’s already great.