I love the fact that seemingly the launchpad devs are already working on this kind of thing :)

[1] http://ground-control.org/

And your browser could have a little button that’s a count box of quick fix bugs so that you feel motivated to bring down the total count.

But by the time anyone’s triaged a bug enough to figure out if it’s quick to fix and could go in this category, they might have a hard time not just fixing it then and there.

Basically it let you manage your issues/bugs/tasks within eclipse, and creates a context with every modified resources during the time working on the bug. This context is automatically attached to the bug when you close it. It is also integrated with VCS and automatically creates a commit message.

Maybe all you need is a Mylyn Connector for Launchpad.

My 2 cents.

@Sandy Yeah, we might need to use a VM. Maybe have a root VM image that gets forked and preped to build each package. “Quickly fixing” a bug in a package like Nautilus could make testing tricky.

@Christoph That sounds insane! I bet that would require a lot more work, though.

@Bruce *No, only patches the Ubuntu community is producing and posting to Launchpad. We’re writing patches, applying them to our distro, and creating a system to share them with the original authors… What should we do differently? Not write the patches? Not send them upstream?

@twilightomni If Ubuntu doesn’t produce patches, it makes enemies. When it does produce patches, it’s accused of hording them/forcing them upstream. I don’t think we can convince everyone that we’re just trying to improve free software and share those improvements with everyone…

@Jonathan, awesome! Good to hear.

@Jewel, awesome! I love it.

Once apt-hack is installed, your workflow is:

apt-hack fork f-spot
cd ~/src/f-spot
gedit src/…
apt-hack build
apt-hack install

It’s not perfect by any means, and my goals were a little different, but the premise is the same.

Hopefully people can comment on the idea rather than start an Ubuntu-upstream debate again :-)

If you manage to get this thing working on Launchpad, it would be a great help.

Great idea. Karl Fogel went through almost exactly this story at the last Launchpad team meeting. We might well have even written it up somewhere on http://dev.launchpad.net

Anyway, this is exactly the kind of story we’re working on right now on Launchpad.

Keep the dream alive!

jml

Btw. maybe this feature could even be integrated into applications itself: similar to Help -> Report a Problem in this Application there could be a “Modify this Application”, inviting users to toy around with the code for an app.