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Dev / Triager Training Days

The purpose of one of these days (which could be rolled with an UbuntuHugDay) is to provide a space and time for developers to ask bug triagers questions on best practices.

The rationale for this is that many developers started doing their work before many new changes in the way triage happens in Ubuntu and Launchpad came about. What makes this different from a general "learn how to triage" event is that it is focused on helping developers, not triagers (specifically, but triagers are welcome to attend).

Some things to cover include:

• Providing a list of "need-to-have" information for debugging a particular package (logs, traces, etc).
• Communicating the severity of a bug via the Importance field in LP.
• ...