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[Julia Palandri <julia.palandri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Devid!

Great to see you back in the community and wanting to help :)
So, in addition of the bug Jim just sent, I just wanted to take the
opportunity to remind the existence of the band-aids project. The idea of
this project indeed was to serve as an entry point for people wanting to
help with the development of UT - with bugs that could be solved maybe with
some help of the canonical team.
If anyone is interested, we have a list of bugs here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/band-aids-uphone - of course if you find other
bugs to work on it's perfectly ok, this is just a starting point if you
don't know where to start from.
Other people reading this mailing list, if you're interested in giving a
hand developing Ubuntu Touch, let us know! We want to help you help us
helping everybody :D

Best,

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Devid,
>
> First off, thanks for that app. That looks pretty interesting and it's
> great to know you're back in the community ready to help! See my replies
> inline below:
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Devid Antonio Filoni <d.filoni@xxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> this is my first message on an Ubuntu mailing list after years so I would
>> like to spend few words for my apologies: I was an active Ubuntu
>> contributor many years ago (MOTU, SRU, translations...) but due to personal
>> matters I was not able to "properly contribute" anymore, I also started to
>> work as web developer and my employment was horrible in a such way it
>> alienated me from the Internet world (not only Ubuntu). I'm really really
>> sorry this stopped me from being here around, I love(d) this community.
>> However, last year I got a job in a new company, fixed my internet
>> intolerance and so I would like to contribute again as I can! :)
>>
>> I bought a secondhand Nexus 4 last month only to help development but I
>> liked Ubuntu Phone, so I'm a daily user. First I noticed an issue in the
>> microphone [1] and everyone in the bug report was asking for a way to
>> adjust microphone volume. Looking for that I found a post in this mailing
>> list [2] about volume roles and (also) the fact there is no way to know
>> device volume levels.
>> I decided to write a simple app to control speakers, mic and roles volume
>> levels in order to develop in C++ (like it), learn Qt/QML and find more
>> about ubuntu-sdk and phone system. I'm sharing the code I wrote in last two
>> weeks, it is almost ready and the app works fine. I won't publish the app
>> in the store because I don't know if you'll approve its usage and, as it
>> uses DBus services which are not handled by apparmor policy, the app is
>> unconfined. I also think this app should be used only by experienced users
>> (for example: I still don't understand some roles purpose only by their
>> name but my english is not really good as you can notice in this email too,
>> so maybe it's just me) and usually they're able to build a source code ;)
>> Everyone can fork it, I think it's a good learning project. Please tell
>> (you can also insult) me if I did something wrong in the code, any
>> suggestion is welcome, sharing is good for humanity knowledge :)
>> Code: [3]
>> Screens (imgurl album): [4]
>> What's missing: app doesn't intercept roles volume change from other
>> apps, I don't know which apps change roles volume. I'll try using terminal.
>>
>> Now the real question:
>> How can I help Ubuntu Phone development? I would like to focus on
>> "backend" stuff such as libhybris, aosp, aethercast (I don't have a WifiTV
>> :( ) and so on but I really don't know where to start from, I don't even
>> know installed core libraries, actually IMHO wiki is not very
>> updated/useful in this (it's app-oriented). Is there any
>> important/asked-many-times/low-priority-due-to-resources bug open I can
>> work on and involves core-developing? If it is difficult don't worry, I
>> like to get my hands dirty on code, if it's really difficult I'll tell you
>> I'm not able to work on it but please take a look at my code before
>> pointing me to an issue/wishlist, I'm sure I'm not a real C++ developer
>> (missing exp) but I'm not sure I'm not a bad C++ developer :D and I don't
>> want you to lose your time reviewing bad/useless merge requests, I can help
>> in other ways (translations, etc...)
>>
>
> Since you were working with some media related things here in your audio
> roles app, would you be interested in helping out with the media stack at
> all? We have plenty of bugs and fun features that we'd still like to
> implement and can definitely use more developers to implement these things.
> You'd be making very user visible enhancements to the platform by helping
> out with the media stack. We even have a specific bug to look at directly
> having to do with audio roles that you might be interested in [1]. If
> you're interested in looking into that let me know and I can help you get
> started. A great place to get some live help, particularly during the work
> week, is on IRC on freenode in the #ubuntu-media channel. Thanks again for
> offering to help and we'll do our best to help get you contributing in an
> area that gets you really excited.
>
>
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Devid
>>
>> (I'll be on holidays next week and I wan't be able to reply to this
>> thread until 7th.)
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/131836
>> [2] https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg15687.html
>> [3] https://code.launchpad.net/~d.filoni/+junk/uvolman.dfiloni
>> [4] http://imgur.com/a/4S5VF
>>
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/media-hub/+bug/1544477
>
>
>
>>
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Julia