How I Got Involved With Mozilla
There have been a fair number of responses to David Boswell’s post about how he got involved with Mozilla. Most of the responses have been from fairly established contributors and contributing for a while. I thought I’d share my experience since I’ve been around for hardly 4 months now and moderately active.
Monkeypatching Django Admin
When I started contributing to Mozilla Webdev, I started with Input.
User Days Poll
User Days were created to be sets of classes offered during a one day period to teach the beginning or intermediate Ubuntu user the basics in order to get them started using Ubuntu. User Days were born out of a discussion at the Ubuntu Developers Summit in November 2009 regarding Ubuntu Open Week not being…
Launchpad bug titles are everywhere!
A while back, I wrote about smart autolinkifying in bugs. Last week, at the urging of Brian Murray, I built on top of the work that I’d already done. This time, it grabs all the bug links and sends to the linkchecker and, in addition to the set of invalid bugs, it also returns a…
Write more beautiful python code
Contributing to more Python projects like Launchpad has also taught me about writing PEP8 compliant code. One is expected to run make lint and fix lint errors. A major part of the code I write at my day job consist of scripts, which I most often prefer to write in Python (second only to bash).…
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