User:Gpinto
Gustavo Pinto is an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Pará, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. from the Federal University of Pernambuco, also form Brazil. During his Ph.D., he was a visiting scholar at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Currently, prof. Pinto focus most of his efforts on the broad area of software engineering, with an emphasis to open-source software and communities, mining software databases, and refactoring.
His personal website is: www.gustavopinto.org
Notes for the Sugar Labs project
Contributions
Since I teach programming language courses, the developer role is the most applicable roles for my students. However, the translator and the designer role might be applicable for some students that have such skills, but it is not always the case. That said, one commonality across role is that they require participates to communicate with each other. Since I work in a non-English speaking country, the lack of English skills is a serious problem. As regarding the difference, each role requires different skills. It might be harder for a content writer do the work of a developer, if she does not have such skills.
Tracker
Submitting a bug is a fairly easy process. If you find a bug, you just need to fill an open form with information about this bug. In particular, you need to describe the step by step that one needs to do to reproduce the bug. This is an example of a sequence of steps that helps one to reproduce a bug:
1. start HelloWorld activity, change name to example1, then stop, 2. start HelloWorld activity, change name to example2, then stop, 3. resume example1, 4. in the journal, try to rename example2.
https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4982
Some suggestions on how to fix the bug are welcome, but are not mandatory.
When filling a report, one can describe a bug, that is, a "defect", but one can also suggest "enhancement" or "task" that might be valuable for the project. Whether these reports will be fixed or not is a hard question.
The last commit of the sugar lab project was on May 15th. So this might be a fairly active project.
Finally, the roadmap and the releases are related in the sense that the roadmap contains a schedule of the release dates. The release, therefore should ensure that the tasks are done on time for releasing.
