In Thursday’s class we met as an entire class and shared some of our personal experiences from becoming involved in these open source projects. It sounds like everyone one is making good progress and it has been a bit easier going in the beginning than last semester’s projects in 362.
Some groups have already received emails from their project’s community welcoming them in and offering ideas for contribution. As of Thursday, our group had not heard from anyone within our project but we did get a response on Friday. Our group was welcomed and several sent suggestions on where to begin. One was with the Banshee ‘love-bugs’ posted on Bugzilla. ‘Love-bugs’ are supposed to be the bugs that are considered to be an easier fix and may be good for people trying to just get started, like us! So I checked it out and posted the link on our wiki then picked out one that I thought we may be able to handle.
The bug involves an issue that crashes the program on startup. If the location of the ‘Music’ folder is set to ‘/’ instead of a “normal’ value like, ‘/home/myaccount/Music’, then the program will crash on startup. There needs to be a guard against this condition. I think this will be a reasonable first contribution. I will bring this up with the team at our next meeting to see what they think. I am interested to see with they have come up with as well.
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