Announcing the Hug-for-a-bug Day

We've been busy, busy, busy for Edgy. And we've got some great new desktop packages in the Eft. However, this means that we've got some great new bugs to look at.

Despite [http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?comment_id=104201 ignorant opinions] on our concept, we know where our success comes from. That's why we're going to stick to our special Bug Day. We're going to have lists of things to do of 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 to code. Everyone is welcome. If you don't know how to help, then just come and we'll explain you everything.

Where to join the Hug Day? #ubuntu-bugs on freenode [:IRC]. And you can go there every other day too!

When

Next Hug day is 27 September 2006, in all timezones. But again, you can go there every day and help with triaging the bug tracking systems.

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

Main Objective for the Hug Day

• Forwarding bugs upstream

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

  • [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-importance&field.status%3Alist=Unconfirmed&field.status%3Alist=Needs+Info&field.status%3Alist=Confirmed&assignee_option=none&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]

• [https://launchpad.net/distros/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]

Everyday Tasks

Stuff to sink our teeth in.

• Post-release cleanup: there are bugs still opened on Malone that were fixed in Dapper. It is about time to have them closed.
• fixing Time itself!

  • [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=time&search=Search+bugs+in+Ubuntu&orderby=-priority%2C-severity&field.status%3Alist=Unconfirmed&field.status%3Alist=Needs+Info&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.owner=&field.component-empty-marker=1&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used=&field.has_no_package.used= Tick!]

  • [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=clock&search=Search+bugs+in+Ubuntu&orderby=-priority%2C-severity&field.status%3Alist=Unconfirmed&field.status%3Alist=Needs+Info&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.owner=&field.component-empty-marker=1&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used=&field.has_no_package.used= Tock!]

• Laptop bugs:

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Network related bugs:

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

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

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

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

• Desktop Team:

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

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

• MOTU Science Team:

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

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

• KDE Team:

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

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

  • Poke Riddell for help
• Firefox:

  • There are many [https://launchpad.net/distros/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/people/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 fabbione, infinity or rodarvus

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

  • This needs many testing especially on current Dapper. Many open bugs are probably fixed in current Dapper, and didn't see an updated test from the original reporter. Also, many are just not easy to reproduce.
  • Talk to pitti on IRC.
• Security bugs

  • Vulnerabilities which already have a CVE number assigned are automatically tracked on [http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/ubuntu-cve ubuntu-cve].

  • If you find an unassigned vulnerability which affects a package in main, assign it to martin.pitt@ubuntu.com.

  • If you find a vulnerability without a CVE number, ask pitti about finding one, as these numbers are very important for efficient tracking.
• Screensaver bugs

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

• Kernel Team:

  • overview: https://launchpad.net/people/kernel-bugs/+packagebugs

• Crashers

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

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

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

Resources

• [:HelpingWithBugs]

• [:DebuggingProcedures]

• ["UbuntuBugDay/BugsForExtraPoints"]

• ["UbuntuBugDay/Attending"] (People from the Distro team attending)

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

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