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Re: Working as a team on Nautilis

 

Get it.

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Victor Rodriguez.
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El 29/03/2011, a las 06:37 p.m., Charlie Kravetz <cjk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:12:10 -0430
> Víctor Rodriguez <vicroca64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> www.mb-games.com
>> Victor Rodriguez.
>> Vicroca6464@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> As has already been stated, any competition to finish first results in
> less than desired end result. The object of bug triaging is to insure
> the bug is ready for the developer to begin working to resolve the
> actual issue. For some bugs, that means you have to look at the report
> and say it is ready. For other bugs, you will have to ask the reporter
> to submit more information. 
> 
> No competition to see who can triage fastest or first will result in
> good triaging.
> 
>> 
>> 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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