The Big Desktop Bug Scrub

Ahead of the 16.04 LTS release we want to get the Unity, Compiz and Nux bug list in as good a shape as we can. To do this we will follow the process laid out below, and we need your help. For more background please read this blog post.

How You Can Help

1. Make sure you have registered for a Launchpad account.

2. If you are not already running the latest version of Ubuntu, consider creating a virtual machine running 15.10 to test the bugs on. Why 15.10? It's possible that a bug has been fixed in upstream Unity but not backported to earlier releases. At 16.04 LTS all these bugs fixes (and new features) will be included, so it would be useful to know if an existing fix that will be in 16.04 LTS but not, say, 15.04 applies to this bug.
3. Choose a bug from one of these lists:

   1. Unity 7 Bugs

   2. Compiz Bugs

   3. Nux Bugs

4. Can you recreate that bug? If there is a description explaining how to recreate the bug follow those steps, if not try to work out what to do and add a comment with your own description. If you can't work out what to do just leave that bug as it is and try a different one. Once you have tried to recreate the bug there are a few potential scenarios:

   • You can't work out from the description what to do to recreate the bug.

     • Add a comment along the lines of: “Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. Unfortunately we can’t work out how to recreate this bug from your description. Please describe the process you go through to trigger this bug and then change the bug status to NEW. See this page for more information. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BigDesktopBugScrub”

     • Set the bug status to Incomplete. If you don't have permission to change the status to incomplete please add a tag "desktop-bugscrub-incomplete" and we can have a robot make the change.

   • This bug appears to be fixed now.

     • Add a comment along the lines of: “Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. We have tried to recreate this on the latest release of Ubuntu and cannot reproduce it. This bug is being marked as Invalid. If you believe the problem to still exist in the latest version of Ubuntu please comment on why that is the case and change the bug status to NEW.”

     • Set the bug status to Invalid

   • This bug still appears to be a problem.

     • Add a comment along the lines of: “As part of the big bug review for 16.04 LTS I have tested this on 15.10 and the bug is still there.”

     • Set the bug status to Triaged or, if you don’t have permission to do that, add the tag “desktop-bugscrub-triaged”

   • This is not really a bug, perhaps a feature request.

     • Add a comment along the lines of: “As part of the big bug review for 16.04 LTS I have tested this on 15.10 and the bug is still there. I think this is a feature request rather than a bug.”

     • Set the bug status to Opinion, or if you don’t have permission to do that, add the tag “desktop-bugscrub-opinion”

5. Thank you, we're one bug closer to the best Desktop ever!
6. Take another bug from the list and start this process again.

Hey! Someone says a bug I reported couldn't be reproduced but it can be

If you have previously reported a bug and someone has tried and failed to reproduce it then you need to provide a bit more information.

Please detail the following information:

• Which version of Ubuntu you are running, if that information isn't already present.
• The exact steps you can take from logging in to demonstrate this bug detailed step by step.
• Any debugging you have already tried.
• If possible a video or screenshot of the bug. This would be very useful.

Bug Squash Hours Schedule

We will be organising some time for Unity developers to be available on IRC to answer your questions and help you with the triaging. The exact schedule will be published here as soon as possible.