User:Imz/my contributions to free software projects

A list of some contributions by me (Ivan Zakharyaschev, Иван Захарьящев, imz) to free software projetcs.

See also ohloh/openhub.

Some accepted contributions/patches to upstream projects

Some patches accepted

GNU Emacs

• for GNU Emacs 21.2
  • https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2002-11/msg00405.html (2002-11-14) accepted by Eli Zaretskii

APT-RPM (the upstream was maintained by Conectiva)

• in apt-0.3.19cnc53-1cl (2001-11-13) released by Alfredo K. Kojima
  • replaced Apt::GPG::Pubring with Apt::GPG::PubringPath also uses --homedir instead of --keyring in gpg (Ivan Zakharyashev)

• in apt-0.3.19cnc41-8cl (2001-05-14) released by Claudio Matsuoka
  • added Ivan Zakharyaschev's line break patch (closes: #1616)

XFree86 (forked into X.Org)

• XFree86 4.0.1f (16 November 2000); the changelog can be found at opensource.apple.com, at gitweb.gentoo.org, and in X.Org xserver.git
  • 938. gccmakedep has a typo which affects handling the -o and -O options (A.192, Ivan Zakharyaschev).

• XFree86 4.0.1e (6 November 2000); the changelog at opensource.apple.com, at gitweb.gentoo.org, and in X.Org xserver.git
  • 848. Fix two problems in Imake.rules: have LinkBuildBinary create the used directory if it doesn't exist, and fix a missing ')' in the LinkConfFileLong (#A.187, Ivan Zakharyaschev).

Some patches accepted after having been reworked by upstream maintainers

gnulib

ohloh/openhub info about my contributions to gnulib

• in 2018-12
  • lchown tests: Be more permissive regarding errno values. Reported by Ivan Zakharyaschev (2018-12-20); committed by Bruno Haible in f0c406c2c (as shown at ohloh/openhub)

Linux kernel

• pl2303 USB-serial driver (around 2000)
  • fixed something like NULL/uninitiliazed-pointer dereference in pl2303; committed by Greg Kroah-Hartmann

Some patches sent but already fixed by someone else

GNU Emacs

• for GNU Emacs 21.2
  • the '-c'-check in ediff-diff.el too strict (patch; 21.2 & HEAD) (2002-11-18); already fixed by Michael Kifer

Some problems/solutions reported with unknown status

Some patches sent with unknown status

GNU Emacs

• for GNU Emacs 21.1
  • incomplete fix in EMACS_21_1_RC branch of progmodes/compile.el (2002-10-01); initial bug report

• for GNU Emacs 21.3
  • patch: broken docstrings for functions from .elc.gz's (2003-03-30)

Some bug reports

GNU Emacs

• against GNU Emacs 21.2
  • bug & idea how to fix: ispell.el fails checking English in a buffer with (2002-09-30); status: unknown

Some patches submitted with pending status

Some problems/solutions reported needing more work to be accepted upstream

gnulib

• ??

Some submitted patched by other authors

Some submitted patches by other authors and pending decision by the upstream

X2Go

• bad window title encoding for Unicode (Cyrillic) session names (by Oleg Solovyov mcpain@ and Sergey V Turchin zerg@; 2018-06-15) #1305 pending decision by the upstream