On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 10:03:00PM +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Hi! > > Having started triaging bugs for about three years, I think I should > apply for membership to the Bug Control Team. I've recently become the > upstream maintainer of the GNOME System Tools and of the System Tools > Backends, which implied handling the many bugs those packages have. It > would be very useful to me to be able to set bugs Importance, especially > so that Ubuntu packagers can better identify patches requiring an SRU - > and of course to mark reports has Triaged when I know we can start > working on them. > > > So here's the little quizz: > * Do you promise to be polite to bug reporters even if they are rude to > you or Ubuntu? Have you signed the Ubuntu Code of Conduct? > Of course! > > * Have you read Bugs/HowToTriage, Bugs/Assignment, Bugs/Status and > Bugs/Importance? Do you have any questions about that documentation? > I just checked that I was aware of everything, seems fine. Documentation > looks clear enough to me. > > * What sensitive data should you look for in a private Apport crash > report bug before making it public? See Bugs/HowToTriage for more > information. > Passwords and other personal data in stacktraces. > > * Is there a particular package or group of packages that you are > interested in helping out with? > As I said, gnome-system-tools and system-tools-backends, but also gnunet > which I'm familiar with, and various reports I can find interesting. > > * Please list five or more bugs which you have triaged. These bugs > should demonstrate your understanding of the triage process and how > to properly handle bugs. If there is a bug in your list that does > not have an importance indicate what importance you would give it > after becoming a member of Ubuntu Bug Control. Please use urls in > your list of bugs. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-tools-backends/+bug/434565 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-tools-backends/+bug/418690 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/406211 > (which all the handling of duplicates) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnunet/+bug/342763 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/432964 > -> I'd have set the importance to Medium: while the case to trigger the > bug (system crash during guest session) is quite rare, the effects are > terrible, making it impossible to modify/create users until the lock > file is manually removed, which would really be a deal breaker for most > users. > > By the way, I've also written the Wiki page about debugging the GNOME > System Tools, since the commands to do so are really hard to guess. This > allows easy bug triaging for this package, and makes this secret trick > available to everyone: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGnomeSystemTools
This is fantastic but I wonder if there is some way to make into an apport hook, that way it could be run for everyone reporting a bug about gnome-system-tools. -- Brian Murray @ubuntu.com
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