bug triage [was Re: Fedora Logo on the login screen]

[Lynn Dixon]

Like I mentioned in the previous thread, I am more than happy to help out
in any way.  I have always wanted to get involved in Fedora, and I am
currently an Ambassador.  I would like to do more "hands-on" work in the
distro itself, but I have no programming experience.
Bug triage seems like a cool thing to do for someone like me.

Would it be possible to start an ember on BugZappers?  What can I do to
help?



On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 12:42 -0700, Joe Wulf wrote:
> > Adam,
> >
> >
> > Wondering, as an organizational issue, if bugzappers has died out
> > because it is just too painful a 'job' to keep up with.  Sure people
> > would come with high energy in the beginning, but their enthusiasm
> > wanes when the rewards don't keep up with the level of effort to
> > accomplish it diligently and ever-so-successfully.  So many, I am
> > sure, have other interests, and life in general can just get in the
> > way of hobbyists.  Your suggestion about having a person who's JOB it
> > is to accomplish triaging, might really be the right course of action.
> > They'll be paid to stick around and invest themselves in making Fedora
> > better.
>
> As Bill said, RH has paid people to triage in the past (mcepl comes to
> mind), and we may want to do so again. So far as the volunteer side
> goes, your theory may well be correct; it's actually quite hard to tell.
> One of the issues with triaging is that it's less of a communal thing
> than you might initially imagine: you tend to wind up with a group of
> people doing entirely separate work. If I'm triaging X bugs, and you're
> triaging Firefox bugs, and Anna, Bob and Charlotte are all triaging
> other components, we don't actually have much to talk to each other
> about. So you don't get that catalyst of discussion that other groups
> get, people just wind up ploughing their solitary fields. We often had
> weekly meetings where we'd talk about the white elephant project of
> producing some stats on triage (another thing that never quite got done)
> and then...just leave, because there wasn't really anything else to say.
>
> If you managed to hit some kind of critical mass where you could have
> five people working on some components, at least each group of five
> people could talk to each other. But we never got there.
>
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