Hi Devid! Great to see you back in the community and wanting to help :) So, in addition of the bug Jim just sent, I just wanted to take the opportunity to remind the existence of the band-aids project. The idea of this project indeed was to serve as an entry point for people wanting to help with the development of UT - with bugs that could be solved maybe with some help of the canonical team. If anyone is interested, we have a list of bugs here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/band-aids-uphone - of course if you find other bugs to work on it's perfectly ok, this is just a starting point if you don't know where to start from. Other people reading this mailing list, if you're interested in giving a hand developing Ubuntu Touch, let us know! We want to help you help us helping everybody :D
Best, On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Jim Hodapp <jim.hod...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hi Devid, > > First off, thanks for that app. That looks pretty interesting and it's > great to know you're back in the community ready to help! See my replies > inline below: > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Devid Antonio Filoni <d.fil...@ubuntu.com > > wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> this is my first message on an Ubuntu mailing list after years so I would >> like to spend few words for my apologies: I was an active Ubuntu >> contributor many years ago (MOTU, SRU, translations...) but due to personal >> matters I was not able to "properly contribute" anymore, I also started to >> work as web developer and my employment was horrible in a such way it >> alienated me from the Internet world (not only Ubuntu). I'm really really >> sorry this stopped me from being here around, I love(d) this community. >> However, last year I got a job in a new company, fixed my internet >> intolerance and so I would like to contribute again as I can! :) >> >> I bought a secondhand Nexus 4 last month only to help development but I >> liked Ubuntu Phone, so I'm a daily user. First I noticed an issue in the >> microphone [1] and everyone in the bug report was asking for a way to >> adjust microphone volume. Looking for that I found a post in this mailing >> list [2] about volume roles and (also) the fact there is no way to know >> device volume levels. >> I decided to write a simple app to control speakers, mic and roles volume >> levels in order to develop in C++ (like it), learn Qt/QML and find more >> about ubuntu-sdk and phone system. I'm sharing the code I wrote in last two >> weeks, it is almost ready and the app works fine. I won't publish the app >> in the store because I don't know if you'll approve its usage and, as it >> uses DBus services which are not handled by apparmor policy, the app is >> unconfined. I also think this app should be used only by experienced users >> (for example: I still don't understand some roles purpose only by their >> name but my english is not really good as you can notice in this email too, >> so maybe it's just me) and usually they're able to build a source code ;) >> Everyone can fork it, I think it's a good learning project. Please tell >> (you can also insult) me if I did something wrong in the code, any >> suggestion is welcome, sharing is good for humanity knowledge :) >> Code: [3] >> Screens (imgurl album): [4] >> What's missing: app doesn't intercept roles volume change from other >> apps, I don't know which apps change roles volume. I'll try using terminal. >> >> Now the real question: >> How can I help Ubuntu Phone development? I would like to focus on >> "backend" stuff such as libhybris, aosp, aethercast (I don't have a WifiTV >> :( ) and so on but I really don't know where to start from, I don't even >> know installed core libraries, actually IMHO wiki is not very >> updated/useful in this (it's app-oriented). Is there any >> important/asked-many-times/low-priority-due-to-resources bug open I can >> work on and involves core-developing? If it is difficult don't worry, I >> like to get my hands dirty on code, if it's really difficult I'll tell you >> I'm not able to work on it but please take a look at my code before >> pointing me to an issue/wishlist, I'm sure I'm not a real C++ developer >> (missing exp) but I'm not sure I'm not a bad C++ developer :D and I don't >> want you to lose your time reviewing bad/useless merge requests, I can help >> in other ways (translations, etc...) >> > > Since you were working with some media related things here in your audio > roles app, would you be interested in helping out with the media stack at > all? We have plenty of bugs and fun features that we'd still like to > implement and can definitely use more developers to implement these things. > You'd be making very user visible enhancements to the platform by helping > out with the media stack. We even have a specific bug to look at directly > having to do with audio roles that you might be interested in [1]. If > you're interested in looking into that let me know and I can help you get > started. A great place to get some live help, particularly during the work > week, is on IRC on freenode in the #ubuntu-media channel. Thanks again for > offering to help and we'll do our best to help get you contributing in an > area that gets you really excited. > > >> >> Thank you! >> Devid >> >> (I'll be on holidays next week and I wan't be able to reply to this >> thread until 7th.) >> >> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/131836 >> [2] https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg15687.html >> [3] https://code.launchpad.net/~d.filoni/+junk/uvolman.dfiloni >> [4] http://imgur.com/a/4S5VF >> > > Thanks, > Jim > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/media-hub/+bug/1544477 > > > >> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Julia
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