Low bug triage activity all around

[David Manuel Pires]

On 01/02/2013 04:47 AM, Maarten Bezemer wrote:*
*
*"Or if mentors are (still) not viable (anymore), it might help to create
some
kind of (extensive) tutorial, which guides new users through to overwhelming
triaging, different project types,  testing patches, fixing bugs, etc.

Personally, my problem is that I do not know where to start, eventhough I am
trying to help out for a long time already... How to find suitable bugs for
an
inexperienced triager like myself. It basically is all 'too much'."*

+1
Personally, I am facing the same problem. Even though I' willing to help, I
do not know how to start and the existence of a good tutorial/guide to the
new users would surely increase the number of participants in bugsquad.

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Matt Fischer <matthew.fischer at canonical.com>
 wrote:
*I don't know the history of why/when the mentors program was stopped, but
I can say that without my MOTU mentor I'd never make as much progress as I
have on doing packaging updates and assorted fixes. I'd be happy to
volunteer to mentor someone for triaging.*

Will there be the possibility of returning to rebuild the mentors program?
I, for one, would be glad to have one, not only to help me getting things
started but also to provide me some assistance along the way.

Regards,
David Manuel Pires

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Matt Fischer
<matthew.fischer at canonical.com>wrote:

> On 01/02/2013 04:47 AM, Maarten Bezemer wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 01 January 2013 22:21:41 Omer Akram wrote:
>>
>>> So I think we need to think of some ways to improve the situation and get
>>> more people involved into this effort. Does anyone have
>>> suggestions/comments about this matter.
>>>
>> Personally, I would love to help out where possible. But, it is quite
>> overwhelming. I think it would help greatly to reinstate mentors again,
>> maybe
>> in another way, so people are willing to become mentor again?
>>
>> Or if mentors are (still) not viable (anymore), it might help to create
>> some
>> kind of (extensive) tutorial, which guides new users through to
>> overwhelming
>> triaging, different project types,  testing patches, fixing bugs, etc.
>>
>> Personally, my problem is that I do not know where to start, eventhough I
>> am
>> trying to help out for a long time already... How to find suitable bugs
>> for an
>> inexperienced triager like myself. It basically is all 'too much'.
>>
>> Regards,
>>    Maarten
>>
>>
> I don't know the history of why/when the mentors program was stopped, but
> I can say that without my MOTU mentor I'd never make as much progress as I
> have on doing packaging updates and assorted fixes. I'd be happy to
> volunteer to mentor someone for triaging.
>
> As for where to start, my advice to a new person is actually to pick a
> package and focus on the bugs there. I did this when I started on
> gnome-nettool, one that had a manageable number of bugs and then I triaged
> it and cleaned up the list of open bugs substantially (did some patches
> too). This may not work for everyone, but it worked well for me. It also
> helps if the package you pick is in a programming language/toolkit you know
> if you plan on doing fixes.
>
>
>
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