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Hi.

If you are not familiar with some *nix tools, you will need to pick up some practice with vi/emacs, and make at the least. You may also need to become familiar with source control: check out/check-in.

I was a: Member of the Process Engineering group chartered with defining, realizing, and maintaining the processes and practices associated with the software lifecycle at Caspian.

I did course development and training for that general process: nightly builds, release packaging, etc. Development, including design and debugging, was not a trivial activity. I also did training in shell, perl, regular expressions, etc.

At that shop each developer checked out a piece of the system and worked on it. When it was ready to go, the code was checked in. The nightly build and tests were done on a separate hardware system based on the current state of the system with every developer's contribution. Extensive records were kept for bug tracking.

If you are interested in diving deep into Linux, you might appreciate the structure of Debian development -- I use Debian for my main activities currently.

You can read about Debian maintenance and development -- all done by volunteers world-wide -- at Debian Developer's Reference

It is also not a trivial activity.

You could certainly do some, perhaps even much, of this kind of work on your own in an isolated virtual system. For example, suppose you wanted to work on utility ls for your own purposes. You easily could get the source, modify it, and test it in a VM. However, working on real bugs, for example, might be far more interesting

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
 
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bitesize

bitesize(1)						      General Commands Manual						       bitesize(1)

NAME

       bitesize - Add bitesize tag to bugs and add a comment.

SYNOPSIS

       bitesize <bug number>
       bitesize --help

DESCRIPTION

       bitesize  adds  a bitesize tag to the bug, if it's not there yet. It also adds a comment to the bug indicating that you are willing to help
       with fixing it.	It checks for permission to operate on a given bug first, then perform required tasks on Launchpad.

OPTIONS

       Listed below are the command line options for bitesize:

       -h, --help
	      Display a help message and exit.

       -l INSTANCE, --lpinstance=INSTANCE
	      Use the specified instance of Launchpad (e.g. "staging"), instead of the default of "production".

       --no-conf
	      Do not read any configuration files, or configuration from environment variables.

ENVIRONMENT

       All of the CONFIGURATION VARIABLES below are also supported as environment variables.  Variables in  the  environment  take  precedence	to
       those in configuration files.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

       The  following  variables  can  be set in the environment or in ubuntu-dev-tools(5) configuration files.  In each case, the script-specific
       variable takes precedence over the package-wide variable.

       BITESIZE_LPINSTANCE, UBUNTUTOOLS_LPINSTANCE
	      The default value for --lpinstance.

SEE ALSO

       ubuntu-dev-tools(5)

AUTHORS

       bitesize and this manual page were written by Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach@canonical.com>.

       Both are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3.

ubuntu-dev-tools						    May 9 2010							       bitesize(1)