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 <notg...@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 > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > -- > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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