On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:18 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 04:09:21PM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote: > > if you come across bugs that are easy to solve or could where you could > > imagine helping somebody solve them, please tag them as 'bitesize'. > > > A script that adds the tag, subscribes you and adds a comment to the bug > > report was just added to ubuntu-dev-tools (it's called "bitesize") and > > will hopefully soon end up in natty-backports too. > > > We get more and more people who are excited about helping out, who read > > some documentation and are just blocked on finding a simple task they > > can get started with. > > > Just to clarify: > > > - if it's a simple bug, but it's a blocker for you, just go and fix it > > yourself - no need to wait for a willing contributor. :-) > > - if the correct way to fix it, is to submit it upstream, then that's > > what we should expect from the contributors and help them do it. It > > does not necessarily need to result in an Ubuntu upload. > > > I plan to refer new contributors to bitesize bugs more this cycle and > > it'd be great if we had a nice list of simple issues waiting for them. > > One concern I have is that we not wind up with bugs open at release time > that we *would* have fixed if we had not set them aside as bitesized bugs. > Should we target these bugs to 11.10-beta, so that we make sure to round up > any that are still outstanding at that point? > Good catch Steve.
Daniel, Can we make sure that all bitesize bugs are milestoned as well - to 11.10 beta? That should trigger us to review where they are in a timely fashion. Thanks, Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
