On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:29:58AM +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> We have written a bit about what's needed here: >> http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/bugs.html > > A while ago I've reviewed a little bit which kind of contributions > distros are looking for, from people who are willing to get involved > with the distro (see #608400 for a corresponding goal). > > Most distros are looking for "bug triager" and providing specific > documentation to train contributors in that direction. Historically in > Debian we haven't looked for that, beside the very much understandable > periodic cries for help from maintainers of popular package suites > (GNOME, KDE, etc.). > > Maybe its time to generalize that? For instance, it seems to me that > most of the above documentation by the KDE team is general and can be > used to document a general "bug triaging" task on our "how to > contribute" pages? Looking on wiki.d.o and www.d.o we don't seem to have > much (any?) of it.
If it's worth anything, that same document + the help from the Qt/KDE team helped me a lot to understand the workflow for bug triaging. Understanding the technical part was not difficult, but the workflow tends to be the the most obscure part. +1 for a general doc for that. -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTikoCgu1-PPnmTYGz+Jh0TsU-g9=wej4zxie4...@mail.gmail.com
