Count me in for the bug jam On 5/19/10, brett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 2010 23:59:34 +1000 > Mitch Towner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> In the IRC meeting it was agreed that we need to work together >> collaboratively. One thing that we can do together is have an online >> BugJam. This basically entails working together as a team on helping to >> improve bug reports in Ubuntu's bug tracker - Launchpad [1]. If there is >> enough interest/participation, Ubuntu-AU BugJams would initially be >> every 2 months with the possibility or changing it to once a month in >> the future. >> >> Many "not-so-technically-minded" people tend to shy away from this idea, >> however it is actually easier to help out than it sounds! The whole idea >> of "bug triage" is to improve bug reports. This can be performed in many >> different ways. >> >> A *large* percentage of the bugs triagers have to deal with are not >> assigned to the right package - a fair number do not have any package >> assigned to them at all! One of the easiest ways to get involved in bug >> triage is to simply look at [2] (a list of bugs that are not assigned to >> a package) & assigning the bug report to the right package. Currently >> there are 3165 bugs that need to be assigned to the right package. A >> great resource that helps with this is [3]. There are also plenty of >> helpful & friendly people in the #ubuntu-bugs IRC channel channel [4] >> who are willing to offer assistance with trying to find the correct >> package for a bug report. >> >> Another way that people who are new to bug triage can help out is by >> confirming bugs are still valid by trying to reproduce them with the >> latest version of the package that the bug is reported against. A good >> way to get started with confirming bug reports is to focus on a package >> that you are familiar with. Try to reproduce bug reports filed against >> an older version of the package to see if the issue still exists in the >> latest version of the package. Go to [5] to search for bugs in a >> specific package. >> >> More detailed Bug Triage information can be found in the Bug Squad >> Knowledge Base [6] & the "How to Triage" wiki page [7]. >> >> For those interested in participating in an Ubuntu-AU BugJam, please >> reply to this list. Once we get an idea of the number of people >> interested in participating, we can organise finer details such as a >> date, if an online "how to triage" class would be beneficial, if people >> who are local should meet face-to-face & have everyone collaborate >> online, etc, etc. > > > I understand how this supports Ubuntu, I don't understand how this promotes > Ubuntu to the wider, non-Ubuntu community. I think it is a great idea and > everyone, regardless of tech-spec, should get involved/be welcomed into the > fold, but I don't think it is a prime objective of a LoCo. > > jmo > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au >
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