This week, Google released an extension called BITE which lets you file bug reports from within Chrome (or Chromium). If you are testing web applications, it lets you attach screenshots and/or automated tests to reproduce the bug you've found. There's just one small catch: they haven't released a server to go with the client. Oops. Apparently the internal systems are too tightly integrated to make that possible. I have hacked up enough stubs of a BITE server in Perl to get the client to "log in" and show off some features. (Warning: it doesn't actually do anything useful yet.) So far, I have learnt:

• To get BITE to point at your dev server, you need to edit bite.options.constants.ServerChannelOption in the file src/options/constants.js (as documented on the serverhandlers wiki page) before compiling it.
• To get a bug template to apply to all URLs, you need to use the string 'all' as the URL, which is hardcoded in 'templates.js' in the client.

it seems I was a bit busy & lazy in the last two weeks. luckily diocles & evgeni were more active than me kudos!

here are my small contributions:

• #594860 src:hmmer: "hmmer: FTBFS (powerpc): altivec and cast errors"
  sent debdiff to the BTS, later uploaded by maintainer
• #598958 src:doodle: "doodle: FTBFS: configure: error: Doodle requires libextractor."
  add a patch to the bug (no upload, only experimental affected), later fixed by maintainer
• #600015 gextractwinicons: "gextractwinicons: Fails to extract resources"
  manually close a bug (syntax error in changelog)
• #600806 libxml-rsslite-perl: "libxml-rsslite-perl: Test data does not have license"
  help in the coordination/decision about removal from testing, upload new package to unstable (pkg-perl)
• #601116 liburi-perl: "liburi-perl: FTBFS in squeeze: test failed"
  draft a preliminary patch (pkg-perl)

diocles' blog post reminds me that it's time again for some more RCBW propaganda. so here are the RC bugs I've worked on in the last two weeks:

• #574624 dibbler-client: "dibbler-client: after removing package with dselect impossible to purge it."
  apply patch to init script, upload to DELAYED/2
• #578403 mysql-proxy: "DAEMON=".." in initscripts points to"
  fix init script (patch from BTS), upload to DELAYED/2
• #589582 eucalyptus: "eucalyptus: FTBFS with upcoming Hibernate 3.5"
  add a comment to the bug report
• #595839 verilog-mode: "verilog-mode: FTBFS in squeeze: Nonexistent build-dependency: 'emacs22'"
  add emacs23 as first alternative in B-D-I, upload to DELAYED/2. later cancelled
• #595876 multiboot: "multiboot: FTBFS in squeeze: rm: cannot remove debian/multiboot/usr/share/info/dir': No such file or directory"
  remove potentially created file unconditionally, upload to DELAYED/2
• #597409 tk707: "tk707: install-info installed leads to /usr/share/info/dir.gz in built package"
  rm /usr/share/info/dir.gz in debian/rules, upload to DELAYED/2
• #597411 ssed: "ssed: install-info installed leads to /usr/share/info/sdir.gz in built package"
  rm /usr/share/info/sdir.gz in debian/rules, upload to DELAYED/2

which RC bug are you going to tackle today?

The following developers got their Debian accounts in the last month:

• Ludovico Cavedon (cavedon)
• Gilles Filippini (pini)
• Christopher Taylor (ctaylor)
• Oliver Korff (okoli)
• Franck Joncourt (franck)
• Antonio Radici (antonio)
• Emmanuel Bouthenot (kolter)
• Tim Retout (diocles)
• Dario Minnucci (midget)
• Hector Oron (zumbi)
• Albin Tonnerre (lutin)
• Modestas Vainius (modax)
• Christoph Egger (christoph)
• Andrea Veri (and)

Congratulations!