[chirp_devel] Dev Process Questions

[Tom Hayward]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Tyler Tidman <tyler.tidman at draak.ca> wrote:
> I am not certain who to direct my queries to so I am seeking general
> advice on the devel list in the hopes that someone will be able to
> direct me to the correct place.

#chirp on Freenode IRC will get you [near] instant responses to
queries like this.

> I was considering trying to deal with some tickets, however, it would
> appear that my Redmine account will not let me assign any tickets to
> myself or perform anything other than add new comments to tickets.  Is
> it expected that I simply make requests on the mailing list to have
> certain tickets assigned to me or do I just make patches for things
> without assigning the ticket to myself or is there perhaps a better way?

Dan can change you account type.

> The Developer documentation also suggests that I might be able to help
> out if I were to attempt to triage tickets.  Assuming that my Redmine
> privileges could be increased, I noticed that #123 and #293 seem to be
> duplicate tickets and/or may be so old that they have been fixed already
> (haven't tested yet).  As well, #135 would also appear to have been
> fixed already too.  Is it appropriate for me to try to clean these kinds
> of things up or should I always ask a grown-up first?

Re: #135, I still don't see a link to the Beginner's Guide. Where did
you see this?

> I also noticed that the patch I submitted for #1801 seems to have been
> accepted (changeset 2241:424916a7f717 on August 3, 2014) and it would
> appear to been merged into the code base already but, for some reason,
> this change was not present in the Ubuntu PPA daily build 20140819
> (brought in by "apt-get dist-upgrade").  Is it expected that this change
> would only be included in the next stable release or did I miss
> something?  Also, ticket #1801 is still New and Open.  Will it simply
> stay in this state until it gets scheduled for a future release?

Maybe an issue with Dan's packaging script.


Tom KD7LXL