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= BugSquad Knowledgebase =
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||<tablestyle="float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:40%; background:#F1F1ED; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" style="padding:0.5em;">'''Contents'''[[BR]][[TableOfContents]]|| ||<tablestyle="float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:40%; background:#F1F1ED; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" style="padding:0.5em;"><<TableOfContents>>||
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[[BugSquad/KnowledgeBase/Classes/Triaging | Triaging Class]] - Class given at Ubuntu Open Week in May of 2008 by PedroVillavicencio

[[MeetingLogs/openweekhardy/ReportBugs2|Reporting Bugs Class]] - Class given at Ubuntu Open Week in May of 2008 by BrianMurray

[[Bugs/HowToTriage|How to Triage]] - General summary of how to properly triage bug reports

[[Bugs/BestPractices|Best Practices]] - Useful Do's and Don't's for bug reporting

[[Bugs/Improving|Improving a Report]] - How to improve a bug report - an essential part of triaging

[[Bugs/Patches]] - What are patches and what to do with them.

[[Bugs/FindRightPackage|Find the right Package]] - How to assign the right package to a bug

[[Bugs/Status|Managing Status]] - When Ubuntu uses which bug status and what they mean to us

[[Bugs/Importance|Managing Importance]] - The criteria for setting a bug's importance and definitions

[[Bugs/Description|Improving the Bug Description]] - Ways to communicate useful information in the bug description

[[Bugs/Assignment|Assigning Bugs]] - When to assign bug reports to individuals or teams

[[Bugs/MarkingDuplicate|Marking a Duplicate]] - How and when to mark a bug as a duplicate of another

[[Bugs/Watches|Bug Watches]] - How to set up Launchpad to monitor bug reports in other bug tracking systems.

[[Bugs/ConvertToQuestion|Converting to a Question]] - How to convert a bug report to a support question.

[[DebuggingProcedures|Debugging Procedures]] - Common procedures for debugging types of problems or packages

[[Bugs/ApportRetraces|Apport Retraces]] - How to understand and use Apport retraces (based on a MOTU/School class by EmmetHikory)
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* [https://help.launchpad.net/UsingMaloneEmail Malone E-mail] - Malone, Ubuntu's bug tracker, has an e-mail interface for working with bugs
* BugHelper - bughelper is a tool to help triage bugs and share knowledge about types of bugs
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= Bug Queries = [[Bugs/Responses|Standard Replies]] - A collection of frequently used replies to bug reports setup for easy copy and pasting

[[Bugs/Checklist|Checklist]] - A checklist of common actions to perform for bug reports

[[Bugs/HowToTriage/Charts|Bug Status Charts]] - Find out what the Bug Workflow looks like

[[Bugs/Tags|Bug Tags]] - In Launchpad it is possible to add "tags" or keywords to a bug report - this is Ubuntu's standardized list

[[DeveloperResponsibilities|Developer Responsibilities]] - Are you trying to find a developer familiar with a particular package or subsystem? Find out how here!

[[https://help.launchpad.net/UsingMaloneEmail|Modifying bugs via e-mail]] - Malone, Ubuntu's bug tracker, has an e-mail interface for working with bugs

[[http://launchpad.net/launchpad-gm-scripts|Greasemonkey scripts for Launchpad]] - A project that collects Greasemonkey scripts that Launchpad users find useful

[[Bugs/HowToFilter|Filtering bug mail]] - Example procmail rules for filtering any bug e-mail you get

BugHelper - bughelper is a tool to help us triage bugs by parsing reports for clues about the type of bug and then sharing those clues with other triagers

[[http://isv-image.ubuntu.com/vmware/|VMware Images]] - Images available for recreating some bugs - username and password are ubuntu

[[http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Plots/|Ubuntu bug graph]] - pretty pictures showing the quantity of bugs reported about Ubuntu
 * [[http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/testing_graphs/|List of all graphs]] - Packages with 100+ bugs are currently being graphed
 * [[http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/complete-graphs/|List of complete graphs]] - These graphs are more complete as they capture each possible bug status or importance

[[http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/reports/|Bug query reports]] - Bug queries using the bughelper suite that are run daily. Reports run include:
 * bugs with [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/package/gt2dupes/ | more than 2 duplicates ]]
 * bugs with [[http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/reports/gt5comments|more than 5 comments]]
 * bugs with [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/package/gt5subscribers |more than 5 subscribers ]]
 * bugs with [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/bugs-with-most-duplicates.html | the most duplicates ]]
 * oldest [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/oldest-new-ubuntu-bug-tasks.html | New bug reports]]
 * oldest [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/oldest-incomplete-ubuntu-bug-tasks.html | Incomplete bug reports]]
 * oldest [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/oldest-confirmed-ubuntu-bug-tasks.html | Confirmed bug reports]]
 * oldest [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/oldest-triaged-ubuntu-bug-tasks.html | Triaged bug reports]]
 * oldest [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/oldest-in-progress-ubuntu-bug-tasks.html | In Progress bug reports]]
 * oldest [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/oldest-fix-committed-ubuntu-bug-tasks.html | Fix Committed bug reports]]
 * bugs [[http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/reports/recent/|reported in the last week]], per package
 * [[http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/bugnumbers/yesterday.html|Yesterday's bugs]]

[[http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/devscripts|Ubuntu Developer Scripts]] - The devscripts package includes a lot of useful tools including rmadison which tells you the current package version for every supported release of Ubuntu.

[[http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/ubuntu-qa-tools|Ubuntu QA Tools]] - The ubuntu-qa-tools package is a collection of useful tools that Ubuntu QA team uses to make their daily work a lot easier.

= Launchpad Bug Queries =

[[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-datecreated&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.importance%3Alist=UNKNOWN&field.importance%3Alist=UNDECIDED&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.bug_supervisor=&field.bug_commenter=&field.subscriber=&field.component-empty-marker=1&field.status_upstream-empty-marker=1&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used=&field.has_cve.used=&field.tag=&field.tags_combinator=ANY&field.has_no_package.used=&field.has_no_package=on|New and No Package]] - These bugs need triaging and a package

[[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-datecreated&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=New&field.importance%3Alist=Undecided&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch=&field.component%3Alist=1&field.component%3Alist=2&field.has_no_package=|New Bugs]] - These bugs have not been triaged at all

[[https://launchpad.net/bugs/bugtrackers/|Bugtrackers in Launchpad]] - Useful for finding lists of links between bugs reported in Launchpad and upstream bug reports
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CategoryBugSquad

Working with Bugs

Triaging Class - Class given at Ubuntu Open Week in May of 2008 by PedroVillavicencio

Reporting Bugs Class - Class given at Ubuntu Open Week in May of 2008 by BrianMurray

How to Triage - General summary of how to properly triage bug reports

Best Practices - Useful Do's and Don't's for bug reporting

Improving a Report - How to improve a bug report - an essential part of triaging

Bugs/Patches - What are patches and what to do with them.

Find the right Package - How to assign the right package to a bug

Managing Status - When Ubuntu uses which bug status and what they mean to us

Managing Importance - The criteria for setting a bug's importance and definitions

Improving the Bug Description - Ways to communicate useful information in the bug description

Assigning Bugs - When to assign bug reports to individuals or teams

Marking a Duplicate - How and when to mark a bug as a duplicate of another

Bug Watches - How to set up Launchpad to monitor bug reports in other bug tracking systems.

Converting to a Question - How to convert a bug report to a support question.

Debugging Procedures - Common procedures for debugging types of problems or packages

Apport Retraces - How to understand and use Apport retraces (based on a MOTU/School class by EmmetHikory)

Bug Tools

Standard Replies - A collection of frequently used replies to bug reports setup for easy copy and pasting

Checklist - A checklist of common actions to perform for bug reports

Bug Status Charts - Find out what the Bug Workflow looks like

Bug Tags - In Launchpad it is possible to add "tags" or keywords to a bug report - this is Ubuntu's standardized list

Developer Responsibilities - Are you trying to find a developer familiar with a particular package or subsystem? Find out how here!

Modifying bugs via e-mail - Malone, Ubuntu's bug tracker, has an e-mail interface for working with bugs

Greasemonkey scripts for Launchpad - A project that collects Greasemonkey scripts that Launchpad users find useful

Filtering bug mail - Example procmail rules for filtering any bug e-mail you get

BugHelper - bughelper is a tool to help us triage bugs by parsing reports for clues about the type of bug and then sharing those clues with other triagers

VMware Images - Images available for recreating some bugs - username and password are ubuntu

Ubuntu bug graph - pretty pictures showing the quantity of bugs reported about Ubuntu

Bug query reports - Bug queries using the bughelper suite that are run daily. Reports run include:

Ubuntu Developer Scripts - The devscripts package includes a lot of useful tools including rmadison which tells you the current package version for every supported release of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu QA Tools - The ubuntu-qa-tools package is a collection of useful tools that Ubuntu QA team uses to make their daily work a lot easier.

Launchpad Bug Queries

New and No Package - These bugs need triaging and a package

New Bugs - These bugs have not been triaged at all

Bugtrackers in Launchpad - Useful for finding lists of links between bugs reported in Launchpad and upstream bug reports


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