Additional tasks

This page has curated tasks from previous events, but there are no maintainers for these projects at the event. That said, other mentors will probably be able to help you.

Don't forget to claim these in the etherpad!

Please remember to fill out bug reports/"workthrough" sheets for these issues, *especially* if you don't complete them! If you're feeling really lazy, you can skip the walkthrough sheets and leave your notes here in the wiki by adding to the bullet point for that task.

• Project: BioPython
  • Tasks:
    • Help convert single-letter protein alphabet to three-letter protein alphabet: There's no easy way to convert from the single letter protein alphabet to the three letter. Another poster suggests an already existing function but it will have to be adapted to fit multiple project-specific object types.
      • Attendee notes:
    • Verify that a documentation change has been made and, if not, change it.: A user suggested a chance to documentation one month ago. Check that change was made - if not, make change & submit patch. If it was, comment asking the issue to be closed.
      • Attendee notes:
    • Fix how code handles input error so it fails gracefully.: A certain type of invalid input currently causes the software to crash. Search for the problematic code, and fix it "fails gracefully" - that is, outputs an error message instead of crashing the software.
      • Attendee notes:

• Project: d3
  • Tasks:
    • Bug in the bar graph tutorial: Per the ticket, the tutorial is not entirely accurate with the current version of d3. Submit a Github pull request to fix the tutorial.
      • Attendee notes:
    • Unclear wording in bar graph tutorial: Per the ticket, there is a small bit of the tutorial that could be easier to read. Improve it in the way described.
      • Attendee notes:

• Project: ekiga
  • Tasks:
    • Find out if Ekiga still fails to compile with -DSEAL: If you like compiling software on Linux, you'll love this! If not, you will likely find it pretty uninteresting.
      • Attendee notes:

• Project: FreeNAS
  • Tasks:
    • The system seems to partially crash when you start the screensaver. Task: Start FreeNAS in a VM, and see if you can reproduce the problem.: FreeNAS is a program to turn a regular PC into a networked hard disk appliance, aka network attached storage device. In this task, you need to install FreeNAS by reading its documentation -- perhaps installing it in a virtual machine -- and see if the steps listed by the submitter of the bug also cause your FreeNAS install to require a reboot.
      • Attendee notes:
    • Start a FreeNAS virtual machine and try to use it, on Windows, with a screen reader. Then, if you can, fix the Python FreeNAS code so it works better for blind people: The ticket links to a discussion on the FreeNAS web forums. Read the conversation there, and install FreeNAS into a virtual machine or physical computer. Once you do that, install screen reading software to see how it treats the adm interface. See if you can reproduce the problematic behavior, which is that the screen reader doesn't read all of the menus
      • Attendee notes:

• Project: gimp-web
  • Tasks:
    • Verify that feeds continue to not work in Internet Explorer. If they still fail, then fix the problem.: This requires knowledge of feed formats, such as RSS and Atom, and a willingness to test in Windows. The file to change is in the gimp-web repository in git.gnome.org. The bug contains information on the probable fix, so you just need to write a patch.
      • Attendee notes:

• Project: MediaGoblin
  • Tasks:
    • Change an out of date URL in the documentation.
      • Attendee notes:
    • Add one line to bootstrap.sh script, for compatibility: Submit a patch adding the one line (per spaetz's final remark) required
      • Attendee notes:
    • Document the config options available in config_spec.ini: Since the code provides a sample configuration file, you can use a "symbolic link" to make that available within the docs/ directory, and then write a small bit of English text explaining that file.
      • Attendee notes:
    • CSS overflow fixes: Overflow not handled at pages like delete media ones: Take an existing patch and clean it up, so that it meets the requests of the project's main maintainer.
      • Attendee notes:
    • "New screenshots for the MediaGoblin site": Run the code on your computer, and take fresh screenshots that correspond to the same content as the screenshots on the current mediagoblin.org site. Share those screenshots by attaching them to the ticket, so that the maintainer of the project can update the website with those screenshots.
      • Attendee notes:
    • Write unit test for pagination (i.e. clicking 'next'): Right now, the MediaGoblin project lets you click 'next' and 'previous' to go between pages of media. The project wants the code that provides these prev/next links to be covered by automated tests.
      • Attendee notes:

• Project:
  • Tasks:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:

• Project:
  • Tasks:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:

• Project:
  • Tasks:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:

• Project:
  • Tasks:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:

• Project:
  • Tasks:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes:
    • []:
      • Attendee notes: