On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 02:44:34PM -0500, komputes wrote: > I would like to apply to be part of Bug Control. In fact I am applying > for the second time (last time was 4 months ago). Since then, I have > become an Ubuntu member, adopted the usb-creator package and > triaged many bugs for that project. > > Being a lead contacts for my LoCo (Ubuntu-QC - Ubuntu LUG in Montreal, > Quebec) has given me the opportunity to give talks about how to > effectively report bugs, help out in BugSquad, and use launchpad.net. We > hold a weekly "Ubuntu Hour" meeting where we get to know each other and > discuss various issues concerning Ubuntu. I was one of the organizers of > the first Ubuntu-QC Global Bug Jam last year, and will be organizing the > second one this year. Being part of Bug Control would greatly help, by > allowing me to triage bugs during these events. > > I would like to become a liaison between launchpad and GNOME, KDE and > Mozilla upstreams. Also involved in bugs concerning Launchpad, > Hardware, Ubuntu (testing latest dev build), and Audio/Video bugs (alsa, > pulse, X.org). I have signed the CoC and have read and understood the > documentation pertaining to Bugs (Triage, Importance, Status, > Assignment, Crash/Private Bug Handling) on wiki.ubuntu.com. > > Here are some interesting bugs I have worked on (as requested): > > 1) Title: ubuntu-bug and apport-collect should attach .usbcreator.log > URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/489908 > Notes: In this bug, a user requested a new feature to be added so that > usb-creator upload useful information when reporting a bug. I tested and > confirmed the issue and would mark this bug as [Triaged, Wishlist] > (because it is requesting a new feature and because the log can be > uploaded manually.)
I'm working on this, and including lsusb output, now. > 2) Title: gnusound crashes X session immediately on launch > URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282939 > Notes: In this bug, many people had confirmed the issue and duplicate > had been found. I requested assistance of Bryce Harrington to let us > know if all the information needed by a developer was available. Other > users included stack traces of the crash. I have contacted the upstream > mailing list and primary developer to see if they could offer > assistance. I have also added the project to launchpad as it was unaware > of the upstream project details. I would mark this bug as [Triaged, > Medium] as it has severe impact on a non-core application. > > 3) Title: weird graphics with sis graphics card > URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317658 > Notes: In this bug, a regression was presented where artifacts and > flicker start to happen on the screen. Luckily a workaround was found > and tested and then confirmed. I followed up with the OP and > unsuccessfully tried to make contact with the main developer of the > driver for this family of video cards (no upstream bug tracker for this > one). I would mark this bug as [Triaged, Low] as it is a low impact bug > which affects hardware (which does not seem properly supported) and that > there is a workaround available. As well the fix (of loading the missing > module should that card be detected) is trivial. > > In the following two bugs, many issues were reported that were not > solved in the bug itself. I'm not sure that this is exactly "Triage", > but more of a redirection of users affected by issues to specific bugs > they can comment on. These cluster-bug collected many issues with an > application therefore they were split up into multiple "one subject" > bugs that deal with each issue individually: > > 4) Title: usb-creator operates on mounted filesystems, does not display > confirmation dialogs, issue warnings about data loss > URL: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/445810 > > 5) Title: gdm 2.26 has no graphical configuration tool > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/395299 Technically this isn't bug triage but directing people to the proper bugs and dealing with these "cluster bugs" are both valuable services - so I think they are worth taking into consideration. Based on everyone's positive feedback of your work I'm happy to add you as a member to the team. Thank you for helping out and welcome to the team! Sincerely, -- Brian Murray @ubuntu.com
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