Ubuntu-bugsquad Digest, Vol 46, Issue 14

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Thanks Bruno for your help.

I just created the page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/AdoptPackage/Amsn
and subscribed to the bugs...

Just a little question: when I confirm a bug, and I have a patch, con can I choose someone for working on it?
I think there are two scenarios:
1) I foward the bug upstream, but new versions of amsn are released not so much, and this patch will be on the ubuntu repository after a year...
2) I assign the bug to somebody or I call to a packager (a member of MOTU)

in the second option, who is this person?
(Maybe I'll join the motu team, but for now I prefer to work with someone)

thanks

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> I want to adopt a package
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Hi Gianfranco!

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 10:19 +0000, 
> Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi to everybody. I read something about 
> adopting a package cause I want to learn better how to triage bugs and help to 
> make ubuntu better!
> BTW this link doesn't work 
> href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/AdoptPackage#Already_Adopted_Packages" 
> target=_blank 
> >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/AdoptPackage#Already_Adopted_Packages
> 
> 
> href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/AdoptPackage#Packages_that_need_particular_care" 
> target=_blank 
> >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/AdoptPackage#Packages_that_need_particular_care
> 
> (there's no anchor)

Thanks for your offer of help.

> 
> 
> 
> So I read something about adopting a package and I didn't find a person 
> who cares about amsn (or I didn't check in the rigght place?)
> 
> 
> I'm in the amsn-devel list (upstream) and I use this program since some 
> years.
> I could build it and try if patches works...
> 
> So, 
> could anybody help me in adopting it or could anybody suggest me another package 
> to adopt for learning?
> very thanks
> 
> (I could also adopt 
> boinc, since I'm a tester, but I think amsn is better because is more 
> simple)

Indeed, it looks like amsn hasn't been adopted so yo are welcome 
> to
adopt it. As it's a package with a small number of bugs, it looks 
> ideal
for a new triager, especially considering you know it well. In 
> addition,
this means that you are the ideal person to forward bugs upstream, 
> which
is great.

I would also suggest you request a BugSquad mentor[1] 
> of whom you can
ask questions about triaging difficult bugs. And don't 
> hesitate to drop
in the #ubuntu-bugs channel on IRC[2] if you have more 
> questions.

[1] 
> target=_blank >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/Mentors
[2] 
> href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad#IRC" target=_blank 
> >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad#IRC

Thanks for 
> helping!

Bruno