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Announcing the Hug-for-a-bug Day

We know where our success comes from. We're going to have lists of things to do for different Ubuntu teams, so we can better track the impact we had. Planning is one thing, but we'll surely stick to our concept of success: the Hug Day. This is a very special Bug Day: on Hug Day, when someone closes a bug, then someone else should hug him/her. Why? This is a very special way for us to tell everyone that we love contributions! And triaging bugs is a really big contribution.

In addition to that we added ["UbuntuBugDay/BugsForExtraPoints"] - a page where you can list your most annoying bugs. Fixing these bugs will give extra points and extra hugs of course.

Join the Hug Day

Who can join the Hug Day? Everyone. You don't need to be a developer. You don't need to know how to code. Everyone is welcome. If you don't know how to help, then just stop on by and we'll explain everything to you.

Where to join the Hug Day? Come to #ubuntu-bugs on freenode [:IRC]. Normal bug squashing activity takes place in #ubuntu-bugs at other times also.

When

The next Hug Day is scheduled for Wednesday, January 9th, 2008.

We can't stress it enough: everyone can help. So join us for the next Hug Day!

Main Objectives for the Hug Day

• Initial triaging of OpenOffice.org bug reports ["UbuntuBugDay/20080116"]

Everyday Tasks

Stuff to sink our teeth in.

Include(MOTU/TODO/Weekly)

• [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-datecreated&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=Unconfirmed&field.assignee=&field.owner=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch=&field.has_no_package=on Bugs without a home]

• [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-importance&field.status%3Alist=Unconfirmed&field.importance%3Alist=Undecided&assignee_option=none&field.assignee=&field.owner=&field.component=1&field.component=2&field.component-empty-marker=1&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used=&field.has_no_package.used=&search=Search Untriaged bugs]

• [http://tinyurl.com/rc4bs Unconfirmed bugs]

• [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-datecreated&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=Unconfirmed&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.owner=&field.component-empty-marker=1&field.status_upstream=&field.status_upstream-empty-marker=1&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used=&field.tag=&field.has_no_package.used=&field.has_no_package=on Bugs Against Ubuntu]

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage#head-ab0eb9d7731fa877b5fc866eedc4c312dab50ee7 Forward bugs upstream]

  • [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/CommonTasks#head-9b4cbe438e4959b83ee6ee1c6f636a3624696e31 How To]

  • [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-importance&field.status%3Alist=Unconfirmed&field.status%3Alist=Needs+Info&field.status%3Alist=Confirmed&field.status%3Alist=In+Progress&field.status%3Alist=Fix+Committed&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.owner=&field.component-empty-marker=1&field.status_upstream=pending_bugwatch&field.status_upstream-empty-marker=1&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used=&field.tag=&field.has_no_package.used=&search=Search Bugs Needing Forwarding]

• Accepting people into [:UbuntuBugControl]

• Post-release cleanup: there are bugs still opened on Malone that were fixed in the last releases. It is about time to have them closed.
• Laptop bugs:

  • [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bugs gnome-power-manager]

  • [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bugs acpi-support]

  • [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpid/+bugs acpid]

  • [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/powernowd/+bugs powernowd]

  • [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pbbuttonsd/+bugs pbbuttonsd]

  • [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdeutils/+bugs klaptopdaemon]

• Network related bugs:

  • [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bugs udev]

  • [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcfg/+bugs netcfg]

  • [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netbase/+bugs netbase]

  • [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netbase/+bugs ifupdown]

• Desktop Team:

  • [https://launchpad.net/~desktop-bugs/+packagebugs Bug overview]

  • [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Bugs Triaging Information]

• MOTU Science Team:

  • The [https://launchpad.net/~motuscience/ MOTU Science team] (["MOTU/Teams/Science"]) wants to get all the [https://launchpad.net/~motuscience/+packagebugs science related bugs] triaged and at least a few Hugs earned.

  • Ping LaserJock if you need something or have a question.

• KDE/Kubuntu Team:

  • [https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-team/+packagebugs Bug list]

  • [https://launchpad.net/~jr/+assignedbugs more bugs]

  • [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=kdebase+%7C+kdeutils+%7C+kdelibs+%7C+kdepim+%7C+kde-guidance+%7C+kubuntu-meta+%7C+adept+%7C+kaffeine+%7C+knetworkmanager&orderby=datecreated&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=Unconfirmed&field.importance%3Alist=Undecided&field.importance%3Alist=Medium&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.owner=&field.component-empty-marker=1&field.status_upstream=&field.status_upstream-empty-marker=1&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used=&field.tag=&field.has_no_package.used= Untriaged bugs]

  • Poke Riddell for help
• Firefox:

  • There are many [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-priority%2C-severity&advanced=1&field.assignee=&field.unassigned.used=&field.include_dupes.used=&field.status%3Alist=Unconfirmed&field.status%3Alist=Needs+Info&field.status-empty-marker=1&field.severity-empty-marker=1&field.attachmenttype-empty-marker=1&search=Search Unconfirmed firefox bugs] and any help triaging them would be greatly appreciated.

  • See DebuggingFirefox for some hints and tips.

• ["XSwat"]

  • [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+packagebugs package overview]

    • [http://tinyurl.com/9gs46 Unconfirmed Bugs]

    • [http://tinyurl.com/8oaky NeedsInfo Bugs]

    • [http://tinyurl.com/9zma4 Confirmed Bugs]

  • talk to bryce or tepsipakki.

• Everything related to hotplugging ([https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bugs hal] and [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-volume-manager/+bugs gnome-volume-manager] bugs)

  • Talk to pitti on IRC.

• Security bugs
  • Mark as "Security" via "Visibility/Security".
  • For packages in "main" or "restricted", subscribe "ubuntu-security".
  • For all other packages, subscribe "motu-swat".

  • For bugs that have a CVE number, attach it via "Link to CVE". The list of assigned CVE numbers are automatically tracked on [http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/ubuntu-cve ubuntu-cve], and are also listed at [http://cve.mitre.org/cve cve.mitre.org].

  • If you find a vulnerability without a CVE number, ask a member of the [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security ubuntu-security team] about finding one, as these numbers are important for efficient tracking between upstream and other vendors.

• Screensaver bugs

  • Confirm and hunt [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bugs gnome-screensaver bugs]

• Kernel Team:

  • overview: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel-team/+packagebugs

• Crashers

  • [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=apport&search=Search bugs probably reported by apport]

  • [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=crash&search=Search crash]

  • [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=segfault&search=Search segfault]

  • [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=backtrace&search=Search backtrace]

Resources

• [:HelpingWithBugs]

• [:DebuggingProcedures]

• ["UbuntuBugDay/BugsForExtraPoints"]

• ["UbuntuBugDay/Draft"] (Draft of the announcement mail)

• ["UbuntuBugDay/TaskTemplate"] (Template page for bug listings)

• ["HugTips"] (Satirical page with tips for hugging bug wranglers)

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