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Is there a bug report in Launch​pad.net (Ubuntu) that you are con­fid­ent you can help someone to fix but do not have the time to fix your­self?
Now Launch­pad provides the facil­ity for con­trib­ut­ors to offer ment­or­ing sup­port to bug reports and blue­prints, so that users can apply and receive ment­or­ing. With ment­or­ing you help someone else solve a prob­lem. Ubuntu is benefited, and also the new user gets help in resolv­ing bugs.

For the Greek lan­guage there is an Ubuntu team called Ubuntu Greek Test­ers. Users inter­ested for the Greek lan­guage in Ubuntu can sub­scribe to team. Then, for any bug report that relates to the Greek lan­guage sup­port, we sub­scribe the team as a member. The system is con­figured in such a way so that any activ­ity on those bug reports is mailed to each member. This makes it easy to track the status of reports.

You can see the cur­rent list of pending reports for the Greek lan­guage in Ubuntu.

One of the bug reports is about the Broken context-​sensitive spell check in evol­u­tion (Greek, Rus­sian, etc) GNOME #344008.
This report has been there for around 2 years and it should be fixed soon. I am not sure what the best course of action should be. Well, the typ­ical course of action would be to com­pile GNOME manu­ally (jhbuild), locate the code in Evol­u­tion that deals with gnome-​spell and put printf()s that show what’s going on when this part of the code is reached. Any takers?

Update: Just offered ment­or­ship for https://bugs.launchpad.net/evolution/+bug/10713 I under­stand the dir­ec­tion to work on but do not know what exactly is going on.

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