Monthly Archives: January 2010

Lucid Paper Jam Update!

I thought I’d write a quick update on paper cut progress for Lucid. Last week was our “Sound & Video” paper jam. The following paper cuts were fixed:

Totem: Must have a fullscreen button
“Razor” [is] an odd name for the split tool
Rhythmbox Notification Bubble shows wrong cover art
[Sound Recorder] Cancel button doesn’t use correct behaviour
[Sound Recorder] [...]

Improving Launchpad Bug Workflow for Opportunistic Programmers

I’m a talented software engineer. I have a good deal of application programming experience on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iPhone, Android, and the Web. I’m crazy about style guidelines, correctness, functional decomposition, self-documenting code, explicit documentation, code review, unit tests, etc. I’m confident that for most application codebases, I could learn my way around quickly [...]

Empathy Paper Jam

Last week marked our first “paper jam” for the Lucid cycle, during which the Ubuntu community identified ten potential paper cuts affecting Empathy to fix in Ubuntu 10.04. These paper cuts include:

Open (but do not raise) new conversation windows automatically
“Automatically connect on startup” setting confusing – users may expect this to run Empathy on login
Inconsistent [...]