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["Mathieu L." <lejatorn AT smgl.homelinux.net>]

Hi there,

well, the simplest is to go to bugzilla, do a query for bug reports (you
can leave the "words" field blank if you want all the bugs) then just go
through all the bugs labeled as NEW. If you think you can fix one, just
try it out, and report what you found out by leaving a comment in the
bug itself. Finally, you can post in the bug a patch to the spell when
you're sure your fix works.
I advise you to read http://wiki.sourcemage.org/SpellwritingForDummies
to set yourself up a personal grimoire and ease your work. 
Also, don't hesitate to poke ppl when you want them to have a look at
your fix/bug so that they can test it.
As for flags, integration to stable, etc... we'll see about that when
you need it ;-)

I dunno if you can have an account to the git repos right now, just ask
Jeremy (Emrys) for that. In any case, here's all that you need to know
for basic git operations:
http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Git_Guide

Hope that helped.

Cheers,
Mathieu.

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:46:20AM +0200, Ingo Arndt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> as already mentioned in another thread I want to help to fix bugs
> (I hope this is the right list to ask).
> 
> As I am new to git and don't have that much experience on fixing bugs too,
> I have done a few only in perforce some time ago,
> it would be great if someone can tell me which bugs I can/should try to fix 
> and where (devel?)
> so if I am doing something stupid I wouldn't brake anything important.
> A detailed step by step example for fixing a bug with git would be great.
> 
> If I shouldn't use git and just start by attach a patch to the bug report 
> its okay for me, too.
> 
> A pointer to a howto or something like that for using Bugzilla (when/where 
> changing status,setting flags,..)
> would be great.
> 
> Please help me to help you :-)
> 
> Ingo / baro



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