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Bugs in websites

Reporting a bug in free software is easy. It turns out that everything I thought I knew about bug reporting was turned on its head when I tried to report a bug in the Tesco groceries website.

I was finding some sort of JavaScript problems in that my CPU was held at 100% and the page wasn’t really usable.

As with bug reports, I was expecting to at least have some technical information logged along with my email address so someone can contact me if they want me to try some things out. What I actually got:

Free Software Efforts (2017W42)

Here’s my weekly report for week 42 of 2017. In this week I have replaced my spacebar, failed to replace a HDD and begun the process to replace my YubiKey.

Debian

Eariler in the week I blogged about powerline-taskwarrior . There is a new upstream version available that includes the patches I had produced for Python 2 support and I have filed #879225 to remind me to package this.

The state of emscripten is still not great, and as I don’t have the time to chase this up and I certainly don’t have the time to fix it myself, I’ve converted the ITP for csdr to an RFP.

map.debian.net

I operated map.debian.net to provide a map of Debian contributors and mirrors. There were plans to add in Debian events/sprints but I just did not have the time. The service broke one day, and I didn’t find the time to fix it.

I’ve now uploaded the sources of this very simple application to GitHub and perhaps someone else will pick it up. Having given the code a go today, I’ve not managed to persuade it to load any objects onto the map.

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