Proposal - Ubuntu-AU BugJams

[Dale]

On 17 May 2010 23:29, Mitch Towner <mitch.towner.ubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
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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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I have funny feeling I might be the only SA based person atm, but
count me in :-)

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