Proposal - Ubuntu-AU BugJams

[Chris Martin]

I'm interested
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Chris Martin
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On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:58 PM, MoLE <moleonthehill at gmail.com> wrote:

> Count me in for the bug jam
>
> On 5/19/10, brett <karmic at scentient.com.au> wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 May 2010 23:59:34 +1000
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > I understand how this supports Ubuntu, I don't understand how this
> promotes
> > Ubuntu to the wider, non-Ubuntu community. I think it is a great idea and
> > everyone, regardless of tech-spec, should get involved/be welcomed into
> the
> > fold, but I don't think it is a prime objective of a LoCo.
> >
> > jmo
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