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One Hundred Paper Cuts -- the first ten (as sent to ubuntu-devel)

 

We've identified the first ten of one hundred paper cuts* that we plan to fix for Karmic:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bugs?orderby=-importance&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED

The goal is to have all ten fixed by next Friday, at which point we will announce 10% progress on the project and celebrate. If next week goes well and we can get enough developers involved, we will continue at a pace of ten paper cuts healed per week. With a pace like that, this project is going to get a lot of attention and get everyone super excited for Karmic.

If you are interested in getting involved with the project, there is no better time to start. Pick one of these ten bugs and get busy: identify affected projects, make contact upstream, look for patches floating around, begin crafting a fix, or provide any other feedback. Also, if any of these don't appear to be fixable by next Friday, please comment that the bug may not be a paper cut. Some of them appear to be nontrivial, but someone with more expertise might discover a trivial way to make progress on the issue if not solve it completely. Canonical's Design and User Experience team aims to get involved with these first ten before early next week, but if a paper cut is not blocking on their involvement (many are not) and you can make progress, by all means please do so.

Thank you,
David

PS: For the curious, here are the potential remaining paper cuts:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bugs?orderby=-importance&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED Many people have already started working on confirmed paper cuts, and a few fixes have already landed.

*Paper cuts are trivially fixable usability bugs that the average user would encounter during his/her first day of using vanilla Ubuntu 9.10.







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