Contributing to Remote Help Assistant

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Andrew, I'm sure you're really busy there's a bunch of us willing to help. Just let us know how best to collaborate with your work.

Hey,

I've just moved house and changed job so kinda busy yeah :)

I'm starting to get some time of my own back lately, and I hope to have some time for RHA over the weekend. It's been the better part of two months since I've had any free time at all though, so I'll probably have to spend a while just reacquainting myself with the code.

If memory serves, a new version was nearing completion before all this started, so debugging/using/etc. would be very useful there.

Anyway, my 15 free pre-work minutes are up. How would you prefer to talk about this in future? We've got a mailing list if you like.

Andrew:

thanks for getting back to me. No worries about your busy-ness. There's
life beyond Ubuntu.

I can definitely find some testers for you. I'll get on the mailing list
and continue the discussion there.

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 05:46 +0000, Andrew Sayers wrote:

> Your question #82672 on Remote Help Assistant changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/remote-help-assistant/+question/82672
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Andrew Sayers requested for more information:
> Hey,
>
> I've just moved house and changed job so kinda busy yeah :)
>
> I'm starting to get some time of my own back lately, and I hope to have
> some time for RHA over the weekend. It's been the better part of two
> months since I've had any free time at all though, so I'll probably have
> to spend a while just reacquainting myself with the code.
>
> If memory serves, a new version was nearing completion before all this
> started, so debugging/using/etc. would be very useful there.
>
> Anyway, my 15 free pre-work minutes are up. How would you prefer to
> talk about this in future? We've got a mailing list if you like.
>

Larry Reid
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Sign me up for testing. I've got a few netbooks and some willing "friends". Thanks Larry for energizing this. Keep us posted.

As promised, I've spent (a good chunk of) this weekend re-acquainting myself with the codebase. Development work is mainly in this branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~andrew-bugs-launchpad-net/remote-help-assistant/0.2

I should really have a go at maintaining the older 0.1 branch, but that'll have to wait for another weekend.

You're welcome to play about with the 0.2 branch. You can check the program out with bazaar and run it with "./share/remote-help-assistant/gtk_client.py", but you'll get all the debugging information on the command-line. The manual is available through "Advanced > More information" on page 3, and explains all the things that 0.2 should do. I don't have another computer to test the program with right now, so I can't tell you whether it's possible to connect to another PC. I'll make a virtual PC during the week, and check against that.

In the short-term, the main thing I'd like help with is reading the manual, and seeing whether it makes sense/fits your use case. Even if the program is otherwise bug-free, I expect it'll be another weekend or two before I can produce a package for testing. Once we get to that point, any testing would be very much appreciated :)

I'll close this question now, and continue on the mailing list. Please get people to join the list if they want to help.