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Foresight Issues Update

While the march to Foresight 2.1 continues to improve Foresight, one area that needs help, and is easy for a new contributor to jump into, is fixing current issues in Foresight.

While Foresight 2.1 will focus on a number of things to make Foresight even easier to use, such as improving boot up speed, printing, and installing packages, we would also like to fix as many bugs as we can.

A quick look at Foresight’s issue tracker, JIRA, shows the following:

637 total open issues (or 34% of all issues ever filed in JIRA)

In progress: 40 (2%)

Reopened: 15 (1%)

Needs QA: 120 (6%)

Blocker: 6 (1%)

Critical: 25 (3%)

Major: 77 (10%)

Normal: 572 (77%)

Minor: 55 (7%)

Trivial: 12 (2%)

By assignees:

Distro: 234 (31%)

Packagers: 123 (16%)

Ken VanDine 174 (23%)

Antonio Meireles 93 (12%)

Issues assigned to Distro need to be triaged and assigned. One other thing to note, is just because an issue is assigned to someone, doesn’t mean you can’t work on it! Issues are typically assigned to developers who we know can fix it, and we default to them.

We need your help! Out of the open issues, can you confirm it’s a bug? Try and re-create what happened to the user and comment on the issue if you can or can’t. Can you package? Jump in and browse package requests and build it! I’ll be triaging bugs over the holiday break, and if we can knock out a bunch of them prior to our 2.1 release, we can continue to make Foresight even better.

Want to learn more? Here are our wiki pages on using JIRA and triaging issues in Foresight.

Fringe

Fringe is my new favorite TV show of the season, with Life on Mars being a close second. Fringe, created by JJ Abrams of Alias, Lost and Cloverfield fame, is to me, the X-Files meets Lost. (Which probably explains why I love it so much).

Fringe is roughly half way through it’s first season, and most of the episodes have been standalone and self contained to introduce the new viewer to the characters and over arching storyline. Now it’s just starting to get good, as the over arching storyline is coming into focus, and we’re getting hints of what’s to come. And of course it left us for the next month on a big cliffhanger!

One of the many mysteries we’ve been introduced to, in addition to “The Pattern”, is a gentleman called “The Observer” whom we met in one episode. Now Fox has released on their YouTube channel clips of all the easter eggs of every episode on where The Observer is hidden, and I know I missed picking him out in most of them.

Fringe Television has edited all the clips together:

If you’re not watching Fringe, you should be. And how can you not love the fact they tell you before each commercial break when the show is coming back (60 or 90 seconds). Great for DVR users!

(Via Fringe Television)

Where'd whooo go?

In the immortal words of Goose from Top Gun: “Where’d whooooo go?”

I took the last 6 weeks to disappear as I started a new job, working in my home office. I owe the Foresight community an apology, as I should have given some warning. (Though I did let Ken and Antonio know).

What started as a one week sabbatical from the internet between jobs stretched out, as I was traveling 3 of the 4 first four weeks of the new job, and working in a home office requires a high level of focus. Add to that meeting new people, figuring out what you’re doing and who does what, I needed to step back for a bit from Foresight. I shut down IRC and IM so I could minimize distractions while working at home. It seems to have helped – I think I’ve found a rhythm and schedule that’s working.

I’ve been popping back in to IRC this week, and browsing through the commits and JIRA issues trying to get back up to speed. It’s amazing how much is going on in just the short period I was away.

Again, I apologize for not having been around, but the good news is I’m working my way back, and looking forward to helping take Foresight to the next level.