What Is a Paper Cut?
The One Hundred Paper Cuts Project Says It Will Fix 100 'Paper Cuts' in Each Release Cycle. What Is the Definition of a Paper Cut? 0 2 Answers from the...
The One Hundred Paper Cuts project says it will fix 100 'paper cuts' in each release cycle. What is the definition of a paper cut?
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From the papercut website:
The One Hundred Paper Cuts project exists to work on the little annoyances in Ubuntu. These bugs are normally considered too low priority for the developers of the apps in question, who already have more than enough to work on, and so the One Hundred Paper Cuts project comes along and picks them up. In each release cycle, the project aims to fix 100 of these little bugs and in doing so, give Ubuntu a layer of polish that is not typically found in other Linux distros.
As for the definition of a paper cut:
Put briefly, a paper cut is a trivially fixable usability bug that the average user would encounter in default installation of Ubuntu Desktop Edition.
If you prefer a more detailed, itemized definition, a paper cut is:
- A bug, or an unintended problem occurring within an existing piece of software,
- the presence of which makes a computer more difficult or less pleasant to use,
- that is easy to fix,
- that the average user would encounter...
- in a default installation of Latest release of Ubuntu or Kubuntu, Desktop Edition.
If a potential paper cut fails to meet any of the criteria above, it is not a paper cut.
All the information on how to get involved is on the site too. See One Hundred Papercuts - Ubuntu Wiki for more information.
The definition of a paper cut
Put briefly, a paper cut is a trivially fixable usability bug that the average user would encounter in a default application included on the Ubuntu desktop. If you prefer a more detailed, itemized definition, a paper cut is:
- A bug, or an unintended problem occurring within an existing piece of software,
- the presence of which makes a computer more difficult or less pleasant to use,
- that is easy to fix,
- that the average user would encounter,
- in a default application of the current Ubuntu, LTS or development release.
If a potential paper cut fails to meet '''any''' of the criteria above, it is '''not''' a paper cut.
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