US Teams Education Week : Reporting, Improving and Fixing Bugs

With the busy holiday week I’ve had I have not been able to sit down and announce some of the plans that we’ve made recently concerning US Teams participating in Ubuntu bug work.  At our last meeting we discussed some of the ideas from the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit, part of which being trying to leverage the great people we have in the local community projects to improve Ubuntu from within.  I’m really excited to announce our first US Teams Education Week, which will be in regards to bug submission, improvement and patching.

If you’re interested in helping out with the Ubuntu bug system, whether it be in learning how to properly submit the bugs that you find or maybe you would like to help organize the piles of existing bugs already reported, please join us for our education sprint.  Beginning Monday, Nov 26th at , 5:00pm PST, 6:00pm MST, 8:00pm EST, etc we’ll meet in #ubuntu-us for some instruction on how we can better participate in the bug system for Ubuntu.

The presentation, including some Q&A with the Ubuntu bug-team, will only go about an hour.  After that we’d like everyone to take what they’ve learned and dive right in!  Additional training, including improving and triaging existing bugs will take place at the same time on Wednesday, and finally patching bugs and working with upstream will take place on Friday.

I’m sure this first event will have a few hiccups but we plan to have these regularly and educate the Ubuntu community (mainly, in my focus, the US Teams community) on improving Ubuntu from within.  I’m sure as we hold a few of these events that the “bugs” will get worked out and it’ll become a regular scheduled project.  Future planned education sprints including packaging with MOTU, Ubuntu documentation and more.

In any event, if you’re interested at all in knowing how the bug system works or would like to participate in some way to the Ubuntu project please join us in irc on Monday, Nov 26th at the times above.  See you there!