Re: [Banshee-List] CofC group, finding a bug to work on

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2011/2/9 Kyle Hagan <kyleahagan gmail com>

I'm in the College of Charleston group that is working on Banshee for one of our classes. At the moment, we are looking for a simple bug to fix to get us started on contributing to the project.

As an aside, I initially thought that this might be a good choice: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523644 On further inspection, though, it seems like figuring out the meaning of a given ' ' might be a complex problem. If I understand the code correctly, a space can effectively mean "and" via line 77 of UserQueryParser as in the example "artist=foo rating=5", or it can be junk that has to be removed as in "rating = 5", or it can occur within a string that should be a single term, as in the given example, "added>two days ago". I haven't thought of a reliable way to handle spaces while keeping the input format flexible without giving the parser some information about the data being parsed.

Anyway, if someone with more experience with the project could point us toward a better candidate for a simple bug, or if there is a better way of looking at the bug I have been working on, any input would be appreciated.

A lot of work has already gone into this one but Dutchie seems to have disappeared. Finishing the transcode profile feature would be great but maybe not exactly simple.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576722 

Fairly simple bug in our GStreamer pipeline with explaination from upstream as to how we should fix it. Should be simple:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635698

Rename every relevant place from banshee-1 to banshee which should also be really simple but get you around the code base a bit to have a good old fashioned rummage around.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641185

The latter two should probably make for good first pokes at the Banshee code base and then work your way up to the first one.

- David