Proposal - Ubuntu-AU BugJams

[Mitch Towner]

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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.



[1]	https://launchpad.net/
[2]	http://is.gd/bWXr8
[3]	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage
[4]	http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-bugs
[5]	https://bugs.launchpad.net/
[6]	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/KnowledgeBase
[7]	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage
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