On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <[email protected]>wrote:
> * Omer Akram ([email protected]) wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I have been involved in bug triage for a while in Ubuntu and it seems > this > > scene is not that active it used to be although alot of great folks from > > our community are highly devoted. > > > > I am not sure about the reason behind that but one thing I am sure is > that > > previously we had running efforts like "Bug Days" where a certain package > > was selected and all of the Ubuntu Bug Squad was invited to participate > in > > triaging those bugs. > > > > Another reason which could be related is that now there is no one in the > > Ubuntu desktop team (or Canonical) to lead the effort of Bug management > and > > community involvement previously Pedro played a big role there. > > > > So I think we need to think of some ways to improve the situation and get > > more people involved into this effort. Does anyone have > > suggestions/comments about this matter. > > Most of the irc seems to have been pretty dead over xmas, I'm guessing > there aren't many of us doing it just for the heck of it at the moment. > There is also the danger that perhaps some of the others got a life > and we aren't getting new ones in. > That may be a factor but I have seen closely no activity in #ubuntu-bugs for a while which is not good > > I've been trying to fix things like universe packages that seg at startup; > but with Debian in freeze it's nigh on impossible to get any fix into > debian > unless it also breaks Debian which for a lot of our Fortify triggered > bugs they don't; and for a non-debian dev it's also hard going. > > There are also a heck of a lot of unreviewed patches in the system; so > perhaps > it's time for another round of patch triaging. > > </snip> > I don't know what the numbers are, but I think the lack of an 'alpha' > for Raring (as opposed to the dailies) makes me think there are less people > trying it; there certainly doesn't seem to be much activity on +1. > I am not currently affected by this but maybe a bit more time at this will produce better result. > > I'm also seeing signs there are a few of the regulars who've tried > Raring on their machine and find it's failed very early on in the kernel > and haven't been able to find a working solution to carry on, and have > just gone and ignored it for the moment. > then I am lucky raring works just fine for me just few glitches here and there but thats expected at this stage i guess. > > One thing I am starting to do is pick a random point in the bug list > rather than starting at either end; just adding a 1000 or another > random number to the bug list and instead of next/last just add a few > more - lots of people look at the latest bugs; but there are a few > year old untriaged bugs that are still broken on Raring; it just > takes someone to spot them and try them - if the description > in the bug is a seg-at-startup then I tend to try it myself > rather than asking the user to reverify, since the user has probably > moved on. > > Yeah, I has been disucussed in the past that people don't know which bugs to start with, the above problem sounds related. > Dave > -- > -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- > / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux | Happy \ > \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | | In Hex / > \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ > > -- > Ubuntu-bugsquad mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugsquad Thanks
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