You won’t be surprised to hear that I am on the Papercutters team and, in that capacity, was on the receiving end of an email from Vish who points out a couple of things:
1) Only a handful of members in the Papercutters team are active on the project.
2) For a project to live we need as many people as possible contributing on a fairly regular basis.
If you are new to the area (well, this corner of cyberspace at least) you may not know about the Paper Cuts project. It is an initiative to identify and fix small bugs that impact on the user experience of Ubuntu and the applications that run on Ubuntu.
The Paper Cuts projects needs active participation from as many people as possible, there are many ways to get involved and there is something for you to do whether it is creating an icon, writing a patch, passing the patch through to an upstream, changing the description of an application for the Software Centre, triaging and identifying the Paper Cut bugs or simply cheering everyone along!
If you used to be active but aren’t any more Vish has some questions for you too:
1) Are you having any difficulties working on the project recently , have there been any changes in the process which have made it harder to contribute?
2) Are you finding any part of the process difficult or are you having trouble getting started or understanding the process?
He also has the following request:
We will be starting the Natty papercut cycle soon, do let me or any of the other active members know about the difficulties and if there are any changes to be made to the project which would make it easier for you to contribute to the project?
As a member of the team do take some time every often or so to take a look at the project and to review atleast one bug or item. Each bug every member handles will reduce the workload for everyone in the team.
This is a community project and if the project is to sustain for a long time we need you to pitch in.
The impact of the Paper Cuts projects has grown with every cycle. To date there have been 295 Paper Cuts fixed. From descriptions of apps in the Software Centre to the wrong album art appearing in a Rythmbox notification and eog not asking to save changes there have been lots of small fixes that smooth the way for the users of Ubuntu and a host of applications.
This wiki page tells you what you need to do to get involved.
Please get involved, get active and let’s help Vish, Sense and all the Papercutters make this a Paper Cuts cycle to remember!
hey, i reposted on the forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1627382
i think you guys need to post on a weekly basis some priority papercuts that need to be fixed or done.
also any simplicity you guys add to the process of getting involved is welcome.
We urgently need a ‘Paper cuts’ mission for Kubuntu! KDE on Ubuntu is buggy, but on Mint it’s smooth. We need to fix Kubuntu before Canonical drops it for the lack of users this snag probably causes.
I am using Ubuntu for almost 4 years and have been contributing in many ways (mostly bug reports, testing alpha releases, translating and as the developer of 2Click Update) but never came across with this project. I will have to check that out as it looks like a lot of fun !
bravo Ivanka!
Puno pozdrava iz Nisa,samo napred!
Hvala Belli. Pozdrav i tebi! :-)
Hey Michael – Kubuntu Paper Cuts have been encouraged and I think we always aim for 10 out of the 100 hundred. If you could get some bugs identified and triaged I am happy to make sure I include them in any future posts. I am sure Vish could give you some tips on how to get organised.
@salih – glad to have brought the Paper Cuts to your attention, I look forward to seeing your contributions!
I’m probably not qualified, as I’m just a newer user, but one thing I have noticed is the icon spacing on panels and on the desktop. Mac & Windows automatically space them for you so they look sharp, but in Ubuntu, when you add an icon, especially on the panel, it squishes them all together and you have to manually space each one, pixel by pixel. It is especially frustrating when you have them all arranged on the panel, then add a new one, and they all get screwed up again. This really makes Ubuntu look bad.
Hi Les,
You are certainly qualified to observe a problem! How familiar are you with Launchpad? I have had a quick look at the bugs reported against the panel icons and this is the list that came back: http://tinyurl.com/2wpyee5 Would you mind having a look and reporting the problem you described if you can’t find it recorded? Once things are in Launchpad it is much easier for us to track!
This is a bug that disturbs a lot of user: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/160311
Every release I hop it get fixed.
One Hundred Paper Cuts:
Status – Triaged
Importance – Low
Resizing a window is way to complicated and a real usability issue – but all it gets is ‘importance – low’.
Hi Paradiesstaub,
You will notice that in Ayatana Design the importance is Critical. I can assure you that if this was easy to fix it would already be done. We have commitment for resources to get this fixed for 11.04 so let’s hope nothing crops up which distracts those resources!
Importantly, for your comment, this really isn’t a Paper Cut fix but maybe there is another Paper Cut bug you are interested in fixing or championing?