5-A-Day

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What is 5-A-Day?

Put simply, 5-a-day is a great approach to making our list of bugs more manageable by sharing the workload. This is inspired by the philosophy that eating 5 portions of fruit/vegetables keeps you healthy...well, working on 5 bugs a day keeps Ubuntu healthy.

So the idea is simple - let's get every Ubuntu enthusiasts working on 5 bugs a day - everyone can take part, no matter whether a developer or not. Lets work together and make some real progress!

...and, to make it fun, we have produced some tools and rankings to make those 5 bugs count. Making Ubuntu better and having fun...we like it. Smile :)

So what kind of things can you do as part of your 5-a-day?

If you have never done any development:

  • If you want to just confirm new bugs, you can do that.
  • Find bugs in upstream bug trackers and link them to the Ubuntu bugs in Launchpad.

If you are a developer:

  • Review patches and get them uploaded.
  • If you've experience with a certain package and want to triage bugs you can do that and forward them upstream if necessary.
  • If you know your way around Ubuntu quite well, you can help assign bugs to the right package.

What you need to do to participate?

Anybody who reports bugs

Did you report a bug on a previous release of Ubuntu?

  • Is it the best quality bug report it could be?
    • Could it use a better summary or a test case?
  • Do you know if the bug is still occurs in the development release?

You can review the bugs you've reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/people/+me/+reportedbugs .

Not a developer?

Once you feel comfortable to start triaging, the following lists may be a helpful starting point:

You're a developer?

You might be interested in the following lists of bugs:


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