[Ubuntu Oregon] focus of Ubuntu Global Jam

[Brian Murray]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 05:07:00PM -0800, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> I'm thinking of making the focus on our Jam on QA, i.e. testing and
> bug triage as a whole workflow towards providing useful feedback to
> developers. Anyone think we should do something else?

While I think helping with bug triage is a useful thing, I think there
can be a longer feedback loop between getting a bug to a complete state
and having it fixed by a developer. Subsequently, I think it might be
more rewarding to work on a process with a shorter feedback loop like
the verification of Stable Release Updates.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/#Verification

I've some experience with this process ;-) and as a member of the Stable
Release Updates team can release the SRU immediately (provided its aged
for 7 days) after the verification of the bug is done. It seems to me
this would be more rewarding as one could say I got this bug fixed in a
stable release of Ubuntu today! Looking at the pending Stable Release
Updates we can see there are plenty of things to verify.

http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/pending-sru.html

Another nice thing is people who aren't running the development release
will have something to do. (Yes, you can improve bugs if you aren't
running the development release, but you can't really test to see if
they exist in it.)

Either way I'm happy to help with either or both activities.

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Brian Murray
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