[Launchpad-users] Ubuntu Bug Week Announcement

[John]

Hello all. My name is John.

While I have been following behind the scenes stuff with Ubuntu since the
beginning, it's very rare that I reply to anything on a mailing list. With
that said, I have a thought or two.

First, how does *2 days* constitute a week in reference to "Bug Week?" Last
time I checked, a week was 7 days, or 5 days if you were to go the
work/school days route.

Second, why does bug smashing have to be limited to a "week?" Shouldn't
bugs be getting smashed as soon as humanly possible, no matter when it is?

Papercuts is a good forum, but "Bug Week" sounds like cheerleaders standing
on the sidelines rooting for their team when they are down by 10 points
with little time left on the clock.

Something isn't right here. I will agree that the notification of the event
gives little to no time for people to prepare. The organizers do use a
public calendar, right? Better future planning is needed instead of
scrambling at the last minute.

I'm not a programmer, so fixing bugs is something I can't do myself. I do
however, like to test new software, break it, give the developers back the
little pieces and tell them how it broke so they can fix it.

Reporting bugs can be fun, albeit a bit frustrating when the app doesn't
work as advertised. People get discouraged when apps don't function as
intended and move on to another distro or even back to Windows.

I hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew with my statements, but
this is what I've seen here for years.

-John
BaD_CrC @ Freenode
 On Feb 11, 2014 12:35 PM, "Alberto Salvia Novella" <es20490446e at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  When saying Trusty is the most *stable release* I took into
> consideration it is in alpha stage, so Trusty is the most stable of all
> releases in alpha stage.
>
> On the other hand, the Ubuntu *Bug Week* has been quite unsuccessful. I
> thought in the worst scenario, because launching it so soon, whe will be at
> least four people participating; but we just where two. On the other hand,
> over a hundred bugs; so it wasn't that bad, *thanks* to Javier P.L.<https://launchpad.net/%7Echilicuil>for being so supportive.
>
> Because of this, I want to ask people some *questions*; so next time we
> do better. Please tell me the following, although the possible answer
> doesn't seem relevant; so we can figure out what has being missed in the
> event:
>
>    - *Why* you choose not to participate?
>    - *What* will make you to participate in an event like this?
>
> Thank you
>
>
> El 10/02/14 13:57, Matthew Paul Thomas escribió:
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> Hi Alberto
>
> Alberto Salvia Novella wrote on 07/02/14 02:48:
>
>  ...
>
> As said<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html> <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html> by Joel
> Spolsky, *good software* usually takes 10 years to become well
> made. And this appears the case for Ubuntu 14.04; the most stable
> release of all time, as it can be seen in its Error Tracker <https://errors.ubuntu.com/> <https://errors.ubuntu.com/>.
>
> ...
>
>
> Unfortunately, the error tracker currently shows that Trusty (the
> orange line) is the *least* stable version of Ubuntu yet. The most
> stable release so far was 13.04 (the purple line).
>
> I guess you misunderstood this because the Y axis on the graph is
> unlabelled, which is itself a bug! <http://launchpad.net/bugs/1237499> <http://launchpad.net/bugs/1237499>
>
> Unfortunately we can't tell whether Trusty is better or worse than
> other releases at this point of the release cycle, because data from
> before last July is on an old database server and not yet migrated to
> the current tracker.
>
> I hope the Bug Weekend was a success. Perhaps for future Bug Days, you
> could give more advance notice that they're happening.
>
> Cheers
> - --
> mpt
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