https://halfgeek.org/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Bugs%2Fcomments_submitted_by_Peter_S._May 2026-06-18T20:12:10Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.34.0 https://halfgeek.org/wiki/index.php?title=Bugs/comments_submitted_by_Peter_S._May&diff=229&oldid=prev 2005-06-02T18:27:26Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:27, 2 June 2005</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Peter S. May]] isn&#039;t a supergenius, but he plays one in real life.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This goes to all who read this:  One of the best ways you can contribute to the success of a free and open software project is to (constructively, of course) tell the developers what&#039;s wrong with the project and what could be done better.  This is something you can do without necessarily being a programmer (or a good programmer); all you need to make a worthwhile bug report is a keen eye, a sense of diplomacy, and the ability to make sure someone else hasn&#039;t already said the same thing you have.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Reading and understanding [[Bugzilla Bug Writing Guidelines]] will get you acquainted with the process and help prevent angry basement-dwellers from shouting [[RTFM]] at you.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=2005 June 2=</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=2005 June 2=</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; 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font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">*</ins>[http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/SkypeHowto Ubuntu: Suggestion on how to make Skype updates available to package manager without violating license]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.  A good follow-up on this would be to find documentation on starting up an apt repository, and then actually contact the Skype people armed with the statement &quot;It&#039;s not difficult.  If you&#039;re willing to consider it, I can direct you to some documentation.&quot;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/SkypeHowto Ubuntu: Suggestion on how to make Skype updates available to package manager without violating license]</div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <!-- diff cache key halfgeek_org_1-kb2_:diff::1.12:old-228:rev-229 --> </table>

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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>=2005 June 2=<br /> <br /> [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3456 X.org: Suggestion to improve MakeRootTile() to make averting the ugly hatch pattern background even easier]<br /> <br /> [http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/SkypeHowto Ubuntu: Suggestion on how to make Skype updates available to package manager without violating license]</div>

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