User:Crulshorukh

About Me

Name: Siddharth Kalra (Sid)

IRC Nick: Sid or Sid23

Contact Email: sid_at_sidkalra_dot_com

Program: Bachelor Degree of Software Development (Semester 7)

About: I'm a software developer currently studying at Seneca College. You can check out my website at http://www.sidkalra.com. Also check out my blog, The Unheralded Perspective

DPS909

Contributions

• Contributed to Add Bit Torrent support to Songbird by installing Songbird. Look here
• Contributed to Thunderbird Image Auto-Resize by emailing zghansar and telling him about wrapping 'loose' variables and functions within a JavaScript object to avoid conflicts with other addons
• Contributed to Canvas3D XUL Runner App 0.1 by testing MyBrowser.exe. Go here to view the results
• Contributed to the Mozilla community by performing addon reviews as an AMO editor
• Added the DPS909, OSD600 and Mozilla for beginners categories to the zenit wiki
• Added a how-to for applying a patch to a repo using Mercurial
• Contributed to Aaron Train's Contribute to Private Browsing tests project by testing <video> and <audio> tags with Firefox 3.1*. View here

Essay

• FSOSS 2008 Essay

Labs

Lab 1

• Created an account on this wiki for myself
• Created a personal wiki page on this wiki, and add a link for myself to the People page
• Created a blog and created a feed category called "open source"
• Read the Blog Guidelines for instructions on how to use my blog in the course
• Added my blog feed and info to the Open Source@Seneca Planet List
• Blogged on my reactions to the readings for this week.
• Began learning how to use IRC for communication.

Lab 2

• Ensured that all TODO items from week 1 were completed
• Commented in at least one other student's blog with your feedback to what they wrote.
• Watched online lectures for this week about open source community
• Completed this week's lab. Posted my results here
• Looked at the Potential Projects page and picked 3 projects on which you'd like to work--next week, you'll narrow this to just one. List them here along with your name.
• Added my wiki page to the class list for Students in DPS909 Fall 2008

Lab 3

• Watched online lectures about the Mozilla build system.
• Attended the Mozilla Developer Day and blogged about my experience
• Blogged about building Firefox
• Picked my project and started working on it. Created a project page for my project in the Project List.

Lab 4

• Worked on the Source Code Reading lab by searching for code for File > Close Tab. Found the code here using MXR
• As a substitute for the create a patch lab I uploaded my own patches for my project for bug 445560, bug 448707 and bug 459727

Lab 5

• Created a bugzilla account
• Found 3 bugs related to my project, and added them to my wiki page...
  • 3 bugs related to Mercurial or hgweb
    • Auto-link "changeset foo" to hgweb
    • Mercurial crashes when creating a new repository by cloning an existing one
    • hgweb pages sometimes don't grok non-ascii characters
• CCed myself on two bugs that related to your project
• Watchd bsmedberg in bugzilla for the week and blogged about the experience
• Registered for FSOSS as a volunteer.

Lab 6

• Posted a bug on landfill along with the patch that fixes the mailto bug here

Lab 7

• Posted a patch for the trunk here

Lab 8

• Completed the lab and posted the .xpi to here

Projects

I'm starting work on the Mercurial History Browsing project.