Closing the Bugsquad Team on Launchpad

[Nasser Hasian]

i read the guide too :)
Launchpad ID nhasian

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Marc Randolph <mrand at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Eric Partlo <partloer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:11 PM, David Dodd <dako3256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> My problem is lack of direction I think. I have read all of the wiki's
> >> and guides, but lack some kind of walk through maybe to get a general
> >> idea of how to handle them, because to be quite frank I am as newbie as
> >> newbie can be on this, but would love to get more involved.
> >>
> >> I'm not looking for a hand-hold but maybe a general step through
> >> process. I know how to get to the bugs, but from there I get fuzzy.
> >>
> >> david
> >>
> > I also agree with David Dodd.  I am also looking to get involved but lack
> > direction on how to get started.  While I have used Linux on and off for
> > several years now I still consider myself a newbie.
> > I have also read a lot online such as the wiki's but yet still lost.  I
> good
> > tutorial on how about to solve a bug such as an example of a bug from
> > beginning to end would be much appreciated.
> > Eric S. Partlo
> > partloer at gmail.com
>
> Howdy Eric, David, and anyone else out there interested in getting started.
>
> There are indeed a number of wiki pages which detail lots of different
> situations, but the the reality if the matter is that you can get
> started as soon as you join up, as described on the
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad page.  After that, your helping could
> start out as simple as doing any of the following:
>
> * attempt to reproduce a bug (and if you do, mark it as confirmed)
> * pick a package and look through its bugs for duplicates (its
> surprising how many duplicates can sometimes be found by simply
> searching with lauchpad or with google using a few key words from a
> bug report)
> * search with google and see if others have had this problem and maybe
> already either worked-around it, or perhaps discovered it was a
> configuration problem rather than a real bug
>
> Of course, there are many other situations that crop up... if you find
> one of those that you'd like to tackle, simply try to follow
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage
>
> Especially when you are starting out, if you don't feel up to a
> particular, don't worry - just move on to another one (but of course,
> those are the ones you learn the most on usually :-)
>
> As with many things, once you get started, it's not as hard as it
> might look from the outside.  Not the least of which is because there
> is a friendly group of people that hang out on the #ubuntu-bugs
> freenode irc channel at random times during the day (and some at
> night) which will do their best to help answer any questions as you
> step through working tickets.  The channel see's varying levels of
> activity throughout the day, but if you have a question don't be
> afraid to come there and ask it... just be prepared that the answer
> may come in 2 seconds, or may come much, much later.  If the answer
> doesn't come right away, move on to another bug and come back to that
> one later.
>
> Have fun!
>
>   Marc
>
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