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[Robert Bruce Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:57:54AM +0530, Akhilesh Chaganti wrote:
> I am new to Papercuts project and would like to contribute to it. But I am all
> confused where to start. Could some one help me in understanding the process of
> fixing papercuts and suggest a bug to start with?

Well, that is highly dependent on the bug itself. Each bug is a unique
snowflake ;-)

I would recommend starting with a bug that affects you, personally.
Think of something unpleasant that happened to you while using Ubuntu.
Then try to figure out what program caused that issue, then look at
the source code for that program, then identify where in the source
code was responsible for the bug. Then fix it.

> Also, I am confused with the states of the bug. For example, Can I pick some
> Triaged bug and work on fix or Should I only take the bugs in New state. Can
> some one explain this as well ??

Triaged is generally fine. If a bug is marked as "In Progress" and is
assigned to somebody, then probably don't work on that one. "Triaged"
just means "there should be enough information on this bug report to
know how to solve the problem, somebody just needs to do it," whereas
"New" and "Confirmed" both just mean "this was reported but nobody's
looked at it yet, so nobody knows if there is even enough information
to fix it yet, or if it's even a bug at all"