[ubuntu-uk] Any folks in Manchester interested in participating in an Ubuntu Global Jam event if I were to organise one?

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi Chris,

I can most likely attend a Manchester session. I'm more testing / QA side
these days. We have held some sessions recently[1] and the QA/ Testing team
have also recently updated the Jam area [2]. I'd be happy to go through
these at a Jam. I'm a lubuntu person, but also test any flavour that asks
for assistance.

Regards,

Phill.
1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities/Classroom
2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Jams/Testing

On 18 February 2013 17:08, Chris Wilson <notgary at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> I was wondering if anyone in the Greater Manchester area would be
> interested in attending a Global Jam event in Madlab, in Manchester City
> Centre, if I were to get off my derrière and organise one. If you don't
> know what the Ubuntu Global Jam is, then check this<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam>out.
>
> == Bug triage ==
> I'm think of running it along several tracks - the first would be bug
> triage. There are a lot of 'New' and 'Confirmed' bugs affecting Ubuntu's
> core apps (Rhythmbox, Nautilus, etc) on Launchpad, and given that Unity
> seems to be receiving a lot of attentions, I think we should make sure that
> the GTK+ apps that make up the foundation of Ubuntu continue to receive a
> lot of love. I think reducing the number of new/confirmed bugs would go a
> long way to achieving that and making the developers lives a lot easier.
>
> == Documentation ==
> Another track I was thinking was documentation for new contributors. With
> all the different upstream projects whose packages are used in Ubuntu, and
> with all the different version control systems, build systems, bug
> trackers, programming languages and interface toolkits, budding
> contributors have an understandably steep learning curve that many find
> just too daunting to tackle.
>
> While fixing the actual bugs by writing patches is probably too great a
> task to thoroughly document, what we can do is help them retrieve the
> source code, build it, and send their patches back to the upstream project.
> My plan would be to use a Google Plus hangout (because of it's awesome
> screen sharing feature) to record the process of checking out and building
> packages like Rhythmbox, Nautilus, Unity and the Software Centre to name a
> few. this should be done on a virgin Raring install so the viewer can see
> the whole process, including installing the build dependencies and build
> tools.
>
> == In summary ==
> If this were to go ahead, which is conditional on there being more than
> just me there, we would work on the following:
>
>    - Work through the backlog of 'New' bugs for some core packages and
>    mark them as either 'Invalid', 'Incomplete', or 'Confirmed'.
>    - Move onto the 'Confirmed' bugs in the core packages (some of which
>    can be quite old) and make sure they're still there. If they can't be
>    reproduced, mark them 'Invalid'. If they can, and the cause can be
>    identified, head into #ubuntu-bugs on Freenode and ask someone in there to
>    mark it as 'Triaged', which means its ready to be seen by a developer.
>    - While working through all the bugs, we could keep an eye out for
>    bugs that might be of interest to other project within Ubuntu. For example,
>    UI issues might need to be forwarded to the design team, minor annoyances
>    with the interface and workflow as well as some smaller bugs, might be of
>    interest to the One Hundred Paper Cuts team, so they can be forwarded to
>    them.
>    - Produce some videos on how to build some of the core packages and
>    how to commit changes to the repository for export back to the upstream
>    project. If several of us can get in a Google Plus Hangout, it will
>    probably be a lot more productive than if just a single person was doing it.
>
> These are just some ideas I've had over the course of the weekend, and
> would welcome suggestions from anyone else.
>
> Again, I'd like to know if there would be at least a handful of people
> interested in attending before I organise this.
>
> Chris
>
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