August 27th, 2010 byBack in Karmic, we had managed to fix 76 papercut bugs before final release.
During the Lucid cycle, we fixed another 102 bugs before final release.
Now in Maverick, 105 bugs have been beaten into submission already! This is the first time, in the three editions, we have managed to make a hundred changes well before User-Interface Freeze!
A huge thank-you to all the eager patch-makers, amazing upstreams and stealth uploaders for getting us this far!
We are not done yet! No! We still have time to fix more bugs for Maverick. Can we make up for Karmic? Can we get to 300? 
Often folks are baffled while looking for ways to start contributing to Ubuntu. Papercut bugs are a quick-n-easy way to get your feet wet in Ubuntu development.
Looking for a way to make a difference? Have a look at the list of bugs waiting for you and knock’em out!
For more detailed information about Papercuts and getting involved, head over to the wiki.
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I get 78 fixed released. Are some of the maverick papercuts not attached to any of the maverick papercut milestones?
@Martin: Yeah , you are perfectly right.
Some of the bugs are not milestoned. Hence the above link above leads you to a total list of bugs fixed. Which is as of today 283[76 Karmic + 102 Lucid and the 105 Maverick].
There are a few reasons milestoning every bug would be unnecessary noise/spam.
- Not every bug fits a milestone [though we have the potpourri milestones]
- We are not sure that every milestoned bug will get fixed. – If the bug has not been fixed in one cycle, then it would need to be re-milestoned. Another unnecessary spam+workload.
Hence not every bug gets milestoned.
We try to focus on a few bugs which we can try and fix and milestone them.
There are around ~280 open bugs even today. Trying to milestone and unmilestone each of them every cycle is a PITA and if someone wants to help us do that, we’d gladly welcome the help.
However, I suspect there might be others subscribed to the bug/package’s bug mail might get irked by such unnecessary noise.
- Some unmilestoned bugs are picked up because one person finds them easy-to-fix and it gets fixed. Setting a milestone for such bugs after the user has fixed them is unnecessary spam.
I can go around and spam 27 more bugs if it is going to make the statisticians happy and if everyone promises not to yell at me for spamming.
Im looking at this page with the Ubuntu font and its overlapping really weirdly. Can anyone else see that?
Huh when I refreshed it fixed itself very weird.
@ Shane – thanks, it’s a known bug. We’re on it
disclaimer: I know this is no place to report bugs, but it’s relevant here and hopefully someone with more time to devote may be able to dig deeper.
When the package manager fails for one reason or another, sometimes you are presented with a[n ugly] dialog box telling you about the failure and that you must run some dpkg command in order to fix it.
This is annoying. It should be streamlined. At the very least, there should be another button on the dialog that gives me one click access to run that command in a terminal.
Better yet, just do it for me.
If the problem is simple enough that you can tell me an exact command to open a terminal and run, it’s simple enough to just fix for me.
Thanks!
So I saw this post on the planet and thought, “Hmm, this would be a fun way to spend the morning before digging into work.” So I went to the page with the open paper cuts and opening a few bugs.
All of the first 5 that I had opened had long comment threads that involved into bike shed arguments. At least one was a long discussion by people who clearly had no idea about the actual functionality of the program they wanted changed.
Perhaps another round of triaging is needed to make sure that all of these really are “papercuts.”
I saw this post on the planet and I thought, maybe I should say this here. whenever i create and html document (example index.html) the icon looks like regular .txt file and when i double click the file it opens in gedit instead of firefox. Does anyone else see that?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-application/+bug/625793
https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-application/+bug/621644
https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-application/+bug/621727
please fix them
and remove keyboard icon from this indicator
@Stevenson: right click on the file, go to the Open With tab, and click on the radio button next to the Firefox entry. If Firefox isn’t listed, click on Add and choose it from the list.