What: Fedora Bug Day: Learn to be a package shepherd Help us out with Fedora Core triage by picking your favorite Fedora Core package and acting as its community shepherd, by helping the package maintainer keep up with bug reports and submitted patches and so on and so forth. Alan Cox I think said it best: "Track the bugs in your favorite package/component: * try to make a few minutes everyday to look through the new bugs filed in the last day for the package you want to watch. * Sign up for the upstream mailing lists and bug tracking system, so you can more effectively be able to move bugs reported to Fedora upstream where they are more likely to be fixed." And to put a finer point on it Warren Togami adds: "Most projects don't have anything like an effective bug tracker of their own. Because of that, what we need are volunteers to serve as liaison to upstream projects. They should be members of those upstream mailing lists and pay attention to news/patches/security alerts there. Such helpers if they are diligent would be like assistants to the package maintainers, and learn things as they go as well as gain trust in the process" When: March 3rd, starting at 14:00 UTC (09:00 EST) Where: #fedora-bugs channel on freenode irc network How: Come to the #fedora-bugs channel on the freenode irc network tomorrow and be a part of the discussion. Instead of writing a very long drawn out explanation of what you should be doing as a package shepherd. I'll just point you to an example. http://www.ottolander.nl/gnome-panel/ I think leonardjo created a very useful shepherding tool with this simple static table. I think people might be able to do a lot of good taking this static table summary example and reusing it for other packages in Fedora Core. Poor Mark, he had to be the guinea pig package maintainer for leonardjo's proactive shepherding experiment. So instead of just picking on Mark, maybe its time to pick on..err i mean help...a few more package maintainers as well. So come on over to the #fedora-bugs channel tomorrow, pick a fedora core package you would like to start shepherding and start digging into the steaming pile of bugs waiting for you in bugzilla. What else: And if you can't be a package shepherd just yet, you're you can still be useful for general Fedora Core Triage, and help clean out the cobwebs in bugzilla so developers can find the bugreports that need attention. Huh: No Clue What I'm talking about when I say the phrase Fedora Triage? Take a quick look at the fedora-triage-list archives: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/fedora-triage-list/ These messages should hopefully tell you what its all about in more detail: http://tinyurl.com/ywma3 - Summary of my vision for Fedora Triage http://tinyurl.com/23alw - My short term goals and long term plan -jef"black belt cat herder"spaleta
