On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 9:06 PM, Devid Antonio Filoni <d.fil...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi guys, > > Hi Devid! > 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! :) > > That's great, we'll make sure you find yourself at home! :) > 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. > > That's a very interesting app, make sure you write a blog post about it! I'm sure a lot of people would want to read more about how it works in the backend (me included!) > 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...) > > As Julia mentioned, we have a band-aids project that is meant to collect bite-size bugs that community contributors can use to get started with the contribution process. >From what I understand you're already familiar with Launchpad, MRs, etc...I'm sure there are plenty of things you could help us with! :) I'd also try asking on #ubuntu-touch IRC channel (FreeNode server). Thank you! > Devid > > Thank you! It's great to have you back! :) Andrea (faenil) > (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 > > -- > 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 > >
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