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[Víctor Rodriguez <vicroca64@xxxxxxxxx>]

What do you guys think if we make team of two to work in different bugs lake a couple who work to repair bugs and with that we can make the "competition" for be who finish first.

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Victor Rodriguez.
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El 29/03/2011, a las 05:25 p.m., Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:57:54PM -0700, Joseph Areeda wrote:
>> Brian,
>> Thank you for participating with suggestions.  I know this bug would
>> be much easier to do yourself than to teach me how.
>> 
>> Please think about  the "gvie the man a fish vs teaching him how to
>> fish" aphorism.
> 
> I thought I was.
> 
>> Please see comments intermixed.
>> 
>> On 03/29/2011 10:45 AM, Brian Murray wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'd add a comment similar to the following:
>>> 
>>> I tried recreating this bug with Natty Narwhal (11.04) and with nautilus
>>> version 1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu11 and was unsuccessful.  My new tab loaded
>>> quite quickly and looked the same as the first.
>>> 
>> It appears to me that there is great value in trying to reproduce
>> these bugs in the latest release first rather than try to match
>> versions.
> 
> Any help that you can provide is appreciated, whether it be testing with
> the release the bug is reported about or a later one.
> 
>> I've  been having a heck of a fight with Natty on my desktop.  Much
>> better luck in a virtual Box VM.
>> 
>> Furthermore there seems to be other advantages to a VM.  #1 protects
>> my system from accidentally uncovering a real nasty and #2 a bug
>> that is reproduced from a relatively clean install is easier to find
>> than one on a system with years of incremental updates.
>> 
>> Do you see any issues with  bug-squading in a VM?
> 
> Only that one would not be able to work on hardware specific bug
> reports.
> 
>>> All of that information was gathered via the bug reporting process -
>>> they likely used 'ubuntu-bug nautilus'.  However, you don't need to add
>>> all that information.
>>> 
>> Actually I was more interested in comparing the environment of the
>> bug report to the environment I am using to test.  My brief look at
>> ubuntu-bug and apport-collect man pages didn't come up with an easy
>> way to produce a report like that.
> 
> 'ubuntu-bug nautilus' will gather information about your system and
> nautilus.  You'll receive a dialog asking if you want to send the report
> to the developers and there is a "Content of the report" option.  If you
> expand that you can see the same information the reporter submitted.
> However, please don't report a bug! ;-)
> 
>>> 
>>> These probably aren't relevant.  I'm not quite certain where to go from
>>> here myself, some things that come to mind though are:
>>> 
>>> What folder is the new tab trying to load?
>>> What configuration values are there for Nautilus could it be one of
>>> those? (I'd experiment on my own rather than ask.)
>>> 
>>> Also given the fact that there are detailed steps to recreate it I'd
>>> search for any other open nautilus bugs that sound the same.  Please
>>> double check before marking one as a duplicate of another though.
>>> 
>> I don't have a lot more time today but will see if I can tie this
>> into any other bug reports tomorrow.  That does seem like a good
>> practice.  I will probably search the forums also which is what I'd
>> do if it were my bug report.
>> 
>>> Looking at the bug again I noticed some attachments which might provide
>>> hints in recreating the bug.  They are GConfNonDefault.xt and
>>> usr_lib_nautilus.txt.  The former one has information about Nautilus
>>> settings and the latter has some information about packages they have
>>> installed.  You might check to see if you have the same ones installed.
>> Back to my previous question about gathering system information in a
>> convenient form.  Can I get comparable files from my system or do I
>> have to compare his GConfNonDefault.xt to the Preferences dialog and
>> user_lib_nautilus.txt to dpkg --list on each library package?
> 
> Using 'ubuntu-bug nautilus' will have this information.
> 
>> Thanks again.  I am making progress in understanding what to do,
>> even though that might be hard to tell from my questions.
> 
> No problem, we are happy to help.
> 
> --
> Brian Murray
> Ubuntu Bug Master
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