3
edits
Changes
m
→Projects: fixed link to properly be internal instead of external
:'''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 http://www.sidkalra.com]. Also check out my blog at , [http://blog.sidkalra.com http://blog.sidkalra.com The Unheralded Perspective]
=DPS909=
==Contributions==
* Contributed to [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Ashughes/BirdTorrent Add Bit Torrent support to Songbird] by installing Songbird. Look [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Ashughes/BirdTorrent/TestResults here]
* Contributed to [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Thunderbird_Image_Auto-Resize Thunderbird Image Auto-Resize] by emailing [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Zghansar zghansar] and telling him about wrapping 'loose' variables and functions within a JavaScript object to avoid conflicts with other addons
* Contributed to [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Canvas3D_XUL_Runner_App_0.1 Canvas3D XUL Runner App 0.1] by testing MyBrowser.exe. Go [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Talk:Canvas3D_XUL_Runner_App_0.1 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 [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/How-Tos#Applying_a_patch_to_a_Repo 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*. [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Contribute_to_Private_Browsing_Tests#HTML5_.3Cvideo.3E_and_.3Caudio.3E_contributions View here]
'''Essay'''
* [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Crulshorukh/FSOSS_08 '''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
* [http://blog.sidkalra.com/2008/09/open-source-bazaar-vs-proprietary-cathedral/ 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 [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Learning_Collaborative_Development_Lab_Fall_2008_Results#Search_for_wiki_user 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 [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Students_in_DPS909_Fall_2008#Students Students in DPS909 Fall 2008]
===Lab 3===
* Watched online lectures about the Mozilla build system.
* Attended the Mozilla Developer Day and [http://blog.sidkalra.com/2008/09/mozilla-developer-days-toronto/ blogged about my experience]
* [http://blog.sidkalra.com/2008/11/building-firefox-from-source/ Blogged about building Firefox]
* Picked my project and started working on it. Created a [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Mercurial_history_browsing project page] for my project in the [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Project_List Project List].
===Lab 4===
* Worked on the Source Code Reading lab by searching for code for File > Close Tab. Found the code [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/sessionstore/test/browser/browser_248970_b.js#144 here] using MXR
* As a substitute for the create a patch lab I uploaded my own patches for my project for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445560 bug 445560], [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448707 bug 448707] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459727 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
*** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443989 Auto-link "changeset foo" to hgweb]
*** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456499 Mercurial crashes when creating a new repository by cloning an existing one]
*** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452718 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 [http://blog.sidkalra.com/2008/10/bugzilla-watch-a-user-feature/ 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 [https://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-3.0-branch/show_bug.cgi?id=6947 here]
===Lab 7===
* Posted a patch for the trunk [http://sidkalra.com/files/tabLab.patch here]
===Lab 8===
* Completed the lab and posted the .xpi to [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/imgs/Addtabbeside.xpi here]
=Projects=
I'm starting work on the [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Mercurial_history_browsing [Mercurial history browsing|Mercurial History Browsing]] project.
=External Links=
