s2 bounty

Mar 09, 2007 19:37

Starting next week, we'll be organizing an S2 bug-fixing bounty! What this means ( Read more... )

Leave a comment

Comments 20

camomiletea March 10 2007, 02:31:21 UTC
Question: Do I need to know perl or how to write patches?

Reply

burr86 March 10 2007, 02:32:58 UTC
No on both counts -- you just need to be able to make corrections to the S2 layer code, and I'll do the work of patching the layouts. There might be a few bugs that *are* perl-related, but the majority will be fixing S2 layers.

Reply


jope March 10 2007, 04:42:13 UTC
Question: Are any of these bugs in layouts with (boo!) non-public code? If so, how will that be dealt with?

Reply

burr86 March 10 2007, 04:53:44 UTC
I *believe* that all of the code is publically available in our repositories -- possibly not on the site, though -- but in those cases the solution is "copy/paste out of the repository and make a new layer" ;)

Reply


dandelion March 10 2007, 13:23:06 UTC
A while back, I posted code to update Tranquility II - can that be implemented? It fixed some non-compliancy with xhtml 1.0 and added a userpic toggle to the basic customisations, here:
http://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/732239.html

Reply

burr86 March 10 2007, 13:24:29 UTC
I think that was already taken care of? I don't have time right now to check, but I will later today.

Reply

dandelion March 10 2007, 13:36:16 UTC
I never heard anything about it after that, so I've no idea :)

Reply

burr86 March 10 2007, 22:31:22 UTC
Just checked, and it looks like your changes have been committed and are already live. :D

Reply


afuna March 10 2007, 14:44:08 UTC
Will this list help with gathering bugs (all/most Flexible Squares-specific).

Er, must warn you that some of those are pretty incomprehensible. I'll try to clean it up or something. Also, not all of those are bugs. Some are just things that would make the layout easier to customize or that users seem to really really want (quickreply, commentbar links).

Reply

burr86 March 12 2007, 02:03:02 UTC
At least for the first round, I'm gonna be pulling from the bugs that came in through the Support board, but if those are boring / if we empty that list / whatever, I'll take other ones too. *g* (Also, good call on quickreply -- I might see if I can work that into one of these.)

Reply

afuna March 13 2007, 13:02:53 UTC
Have fun! Most of the FS-related bugs on the board scare me -- seem to be mostly tied to peekaboo, which, uh, scares me. ;) (Yay! Looking forward to getting quickreply in!)

Hm, I think I'll go see if I can lure more people to the lj_dev comm and the contest right now.

Reply


foxfirefey March 10 2007, 19:37:38 UTC
A couple suggestions:

* Possible post linking to this in lj_style. I think it would also be good to post a link in many of the more active style communities--I know Smooth Sailing's s2smoothsailing hasn't had one posted, and if you wanted to, I could post there.

* It's possible that some people who might want to participate will be hindered by the lack of a current paid account to test with. I wouldn't want people to use this as an opportunity to get a free account, however, so what I would suggest is giving out paid accounts or paid communities with random jumbles of letters and numbers for names available for a month to those who request them. That will limit their utility elsewhere so abuse does not happen, but still allow the person in question to have a test bed.

Reply

kunzite1 March 10 2007, 22:28:50 UTC
on the topic of needing paid accounts to edit layers, they could allow creation of accounts on a test server again. that would also not clutter the namespace on LiveJournal.

however, one other thing that they might be able to do is to create these accounts in the form that you describe, and then del'n'purge 'em when the hackathon is finished.

Reply

burr86 March 11 2007, 07:53:48 UTC
* By all means, pimp away! :D

* I'll try to come up with a solution to that -- I don't think there'll be too many people who fit into that category, but I'll do what I can to accommodate them.

Reply

foxfirefey March 11 2007, 09:11:04 UTC
I don't think there will either, but if there are people out there willing and able, it'd be nice to make sure they were somehow included, and I'm sure there's a way to do it without attracting freeloaders.

Reply


Leave a comment

Up