[Ubuntu Oregon] focus of Ubuntu Global Jam

[Walter Lapchynski]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.

True if all the contributors need instant gratification. I'm not sure
they do. But we can certainly work on both!

> 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.)

Well, with a virtual machine, you can pretty much handle 90% of bug testing.

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

Ooh, you're going to be there?

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