How open source
communities
communicate
Asheesh Laroia
[email protected]
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(Goals of this talk)
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(about me and
OpenHatch)
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Part I.
Discovering Linux,
and my first
contribution
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[paulproteus@host] $
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:(){ :|:&};:
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Don't panic
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"Please help me
recover my data.
I will perform any
test or run any
program you
recommend...."
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“That reminds
me...”
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Replaying journal..
0 transactions replayed
Checking S+tree..
Bad root block 4294967295.
(--rebuild-tree did not
complete) ok
Checking Semantic tree...
check_semantic_tree: no root
directory found
Aborted
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A new fsck!
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What worked about my email
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Post to the right mailing list
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I read the docs
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Provided anything that looked
relevant
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Patience
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Am I a contributor
yet?
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Reflection:
80% of success is
showing up
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Part II.
Xboxes and IRC
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Xbox
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[19:35:09] hello?
[19:35:21] Xbox
linx people :D
[19:35:44] I need
a bit of help. How can I
boot into single user
mode on the xbox-
original?
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v
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00:57 -!- Arti has joined
#xbox-linux
00:57 hi
00:57 hi
00:57 * paulproteus sticks
his head up
00:59 im on my cell
00:59 :-)
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00:58 !google
video Linux Zoran
00:58 <@xbox-logger>
http://www.cicese.mx/~mirsev
/Linux/DC10plus/
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[09:59:30] --> mib_0x1ww2 has
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http://cbe005.chat.mibbit.com/?
server=irc.genevairc.net&channe
l=%23choosinghats. Christian
chat channel! visit when able!
[09:59:47] <-- mib_0x1ww2 has
left #xbox-linux
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01:33 what hapopens
if u tell it to spell quit?
01:34 with the /
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01:34 !spell
"/quit"
01:34 !spell
yourr
01:34 <@xbox-logger> your
btw, i think we can
officially link to the
wiki on the website
now, it has proven
to be good
:-)
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Part III.
User groups and
bug trackers
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“The best place for
us to have a
meeting... would
be a Western
suburb of Detroit.”
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“We also don't
need to be drunk
within 10 minutes,
maybe 30.”
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(Enhance a bug
report.)
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“Very few things are
as tempting as a link
to the problem.”
sscce.org
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Part IV.
Fake it 'til you
make it
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Use this stuff
yourself
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(It took me five
years to submit a
patch)
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Hey Asheesh -- sorry we
missed this the first time...
the patch didn't go through...
Could you try to get an svn
co, apply your patch, and
then submit an 'svn diff' ?
Thanks! JDH