[chirp_devel] Dev Process Questions

[Dan Smith]

>> 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.

Yep, feel free to join us there, but general questions are welcome here
as well.

>> 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.

Yep, I'm glad to give you the ability to modify tickets other than your
own, just let me know what your username is on the site. Of course, I'd
ask that you use caution, and feel free to ask questions if you're not
sure. Closing bugs that are clearly usage questions, or marking
duplicates of the same request should be easy targets. Of course
actually fixing bugs is welcome too.

>> 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?

If you're sure something is a duplicate, or it's clearly been fixed and
not closed, or clearly not a bug (some people file bugs asking for
help), etc then you're welcome to take action on your own.

>> 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.

I don't think so, it looks like it's there. I think probably what is
happening is that CHIRP doesn't overwrite packaged stock configs so that
if you were to modify your local copy of something, it wouldn't
constantly be over-writing them. So, if you go delete your local copy, I
think you'll see the fixed version that you submitted be placed into
your local repo (see ~/.chirp/).

Glad to have you around, Tyler, and thanks for volunteering to help out!

--Dan

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