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Petko | 9 Feb 2012 19:49
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Searching for a mentor

  Hello , I saw that the motu mentor mailing list is merging with this 
one so I'm writing directly here . For the last moth or so I've been 
active on the community (discussions,bug reports, brainstorm , 
blueprints) and I've gotten my way around it , but it's still very hard 
to get ideas through or know where to address them . Also it's still 
hard to get how parts of the system ( development communication) work . 
So I hope someone volunteers as a "mentor" . Nothing special , I just 
don't have anyone in the community to ask some simple (or not so simple 
) questions , and get an idea of how things really work here.

For me : I'm a medical student from Bulgaria (2nd year) . I've been 
programming since high school and can work with C++ (some OpenGL) ,VB 
and QB (don't really matter :D) . I've done something like a 3D engine 
and have an AI project so I've done quite a bit of coding , but haven't 
worked with large codebases that others designed and user oriented 
stuff, so I'm not very oriented how to work with the codebase here .

Best regards ,
Petko Ditchev
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Petko | 9 Feb 2012 20:18
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Re: Searching for a mentor

On 02/09/2012 09:05 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:
> Hi Petko,
>
> On 2/9/2012 11:49 AM, Petko wrote:
>> For me : I'm a medical student from Bulgaria (2nd year) . I've been
>> programming since high school and can work with C++ (some OpenGL) ,VB
>> and QB (don't really matter :D) . I've done something like a 3D engine
>> and have an AI project so I've done quite a bit of coding , but
>> haven't worked with large codebases that others designed and user
>> oriented stuff, so I'm not very oriented how to work with the codebase
>> here .
> Where are you located? Do you currently live in Bulgaria?
>
> For most things, working through the Internets is a good way to
> collaborate. However, mentoring is not most things.
>
> The best mentoring relationships I've had were in real life. When going
> through medical school (I'm an engineer with an MD, not a physician), I
> met once a month with a formal mentor that the school assigned me. We
> would usually go to a coffee shop and he would ask me how things were going.
>
> The meetings were never particularly long, but, they were always
> helpful. I could ask about school, family, and other stuff. Because we
> were in the same room, these exchanges were always more effective than
> if we'd been chatting through email or via phone.
>
> I've found this to be true of students I've mentored in programming. We
> set up a time to meet every so often (maybe once a month, or a couple
> times of year), and we talk about things they've got going on. It might
> be a programming problem, or a question about the industry, or thoughts
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Daniel Holbach | 23 Feb 2012 18:54
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FixIt Fridays!

Hello everyone,

in terms of bug fixing the following 9 weeks are the best of the release
cycle. Precise is relatively stable, so more and more people dare to do
the upgrade. We get more testers and more feedback. Now what we need is
more contributors as well. :-)

What we will do is having FixIt Fridays, where we invite new
contributors and interested Ubuntu users to #ubuntu-motu where we answer
all kinds of development questions, fix bugs together and have a good time.

If you want to participate, it is easy:

 - check out http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/ and read the
   first few articles
 - join #ubuntu-motu on irc.freenode.net
 - ask questions
 - get involved :-)

I look forward to these events and hope to see you there too!

Happy bug fixing,
 Daniel

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c.m.bryan | 27 Feb 2012 12:58
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Need help making first ubuntu .deb

(Apologies for cross-posting to ubuntustudio-devel, but on second
thought I realised it would probably be more relevant to ask here!)

Hi, everyone!

I'm trying to learn the ropes of package management in the hope that I
can contribute up-to-date packages to Ubuntu Studio. My plan is to
package sonic-visualiser (http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/) as a 64-bit
package has been requested on launchpad
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntustudio/+bug/196225). I am only
running at 32 bits at the moment, but hope to upgrade in a week's time
:-D  In the meantime I was hoping to compile a 32-bit version just as
a tutorial for myself!

So, it compiles fine for me and I've edited the files in ./debian/
according to http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/packaging-new-software.html,
but after running 'debuild -us -uc' (which seems to be doing
everything is should), lintian gives me two warnings:

W: sonic-visualiser source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.9.2
(current is 3.9.3)
W: sonic-visualiser: empty-binary-package

And, sure enough, there's no executable in the .deb.  Can anyone
explain what I'm missing? I'm wondering if it is because the source
for the executable is in a dedicated folder alongside several
libraries, instead of at the top level, so perhaps the packager
doesn't see it?

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks,
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Daniel Holbach | 1 Mar 2012 16:57
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Fix-It Friday: tomorrow, 2nd March

Hello everybody,

we still have eight weeks until release, which still gives us some time
to fix bugs. For tomorrow we would like to have a look at the following
TODO lists:

 - Packages which don’t build anymore (http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/ftbfs/)
 - Bugs which have been fixed elsewhere
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.status_upstream=resolved_upstream&orderby=-id)

If you are a new contributor to Ubuntu and interested in getting
involved, you are invited to hang out with us in #ubuntu-motu tomorrow,
where we are going to answer all your questions, help you get started
and review your code for you. The only thing you need to do is read the
following articles on http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/:
Introduction to Ubuntu Development, Getting Set Up, Fixing a bug in
Ubuntu. This should give you a rough idea of how things work. Please
give us feedback
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-packaging-guide/+filebug) if you have
suggestions for the guide. You're obviously invited to read more. :-)

If you are a more experienced Ubuntu developer, please join
#ubuntu-motu, put on your Sunday best, help answer questions and
contributors who are stuck. This will also be a good opportunity for us
to review our Sponsoring backlog.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow and seeing you all!

Have a great day, (and please pass on the message)
 Daniel
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