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[baro <baro AT bitmage.de>]

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