Comment Small but helpful parts (Score 1) 356
Funny, I was thinking about a project last night. I wanted to do some work with LibreOffice, and didn't know where to start. Even verifying a bug requires me to find and download the right build, and then look up the reproduction instructions. Not a big deal, but it didn't seem easy to me to find bugs that exist only on Linux, that are just bite-sized enough.
But what if there were software to automatically find these bugs, match it to your hardware/OS, download the appropriate build (I heard LibreOffice has binaries for every commit), and present the software in a window with the bug instructions. Then I could take 15 seconds to reproduce the bug or not, and hit a button or two to indicate what happened. The results could then be uploaded back to the bug database.
Please tell me Slashdot. Why wouldn't this work? It would seem to draw in more people like myself, who have a willingness to help but like software to do as much as possible...