I want to fix a bug. Where do I start?
- by Ingo Gerth
Although I am not a professional programmer, I have written a program or two. Yet, nowadays every engineer and scientist learns to program a bit as well, and as such I am used to writing programs in Python, C and MATLAB. Now I want to give back a bit to Ubuntu and its great folks and fix a bug!
I had a look at the list of the bitesize campaign and had to find that most of them are not that easy for me to fix as I suspect they require a lot of time to get into the matter, and I do not have that. Still I discovered this one and it looks manageable and like a cool feature to me.
As I have never written a patch or released a program to the wild before though, I have no idea where to start. What should be my first step to tackle that problem?
Bottom line: Where and how do I start fixing that guy?