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  • From: baro <baro AT bitmage.de>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] call for assistance fixing easy-to-fix problems in spells
  • Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 10:59:15 +0200

On Sat, 27 May 2006 18:12:54 -0700
seth AT swoolley.homeip.net wrote:

> On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 05:58:47PM -0700, seth AT swoolley.homeip.net wrote:
> > Hi smgl'ers-who-aren't-developers-yet,
> >
> > I have a perfect opportunity for those who don't know so much about
> > sorcery internals to contribute fixes!
> >
> > Prometheus is our automated testing suite that finds compile errors when
> > casting spells. Well one of the most common errors is a missing
> > dependency. I've run prometheus against stable-rc and have found a
> > whole slew of missing dependencies. These look similar most of the
> > time:
> >
> > * compile errors with missing headers (missing the entire spell -- do
> > worry about these)
> >
> > * compile breaks during ./configure stage saying something's missing
> >
> > * compile errors with undefined references (missing an optional
> > subdependency -- don't worry about those if you don't know about
> > these yet since stable sorcery doesn't support those yet)
> >
> > The prometheus bugs that probably closely match the first two bullets
> > are here:
> >
> > http://bugs.sourcemage.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=cast+failure+swoolley-0-4&bug_status=NEW&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=missing
> >
>
> http://bugs.sourcemage.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=cast+failure+swoolley-0-4&bug_status=NEW&long_desc_type=anywordssubstr&long_desc=undeclared+missing
>
> this actually gets both bullets :)
>
> Seth
>
> > If we could have a volunteer specifically take these spells on by
> > registering a bugzilla account, assigning them to yourself and editing
> > them in perforce/git/svn whatever, I would much appreciate it. These
> > are quick fixes and I can walk anybody through the first few fixes to
> > get you on the road to more than sorcery -- guruness.
> >
> > Seth
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Hi,

I would like to help with this but I never used perforce, git or svn -
which is the prefered one and is there an easy to use frontend for a beginner
like me ?
So if you really want to help a beginner to get started I'll promise to fix
as much as I can from the bugs :)

Ingo




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