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[[BugSquad/KnowledgeBase/Classes/Triaging | Triaging Class]] - Class given at Ubuntu Open Week in May of 2008 by PedroVillavicencio  * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/devweek1001/DetailingBugs|Getting More Detailed Bug Reports]] - Class given at Ubuntu Developer Week in January of 2010 by BrianMurray
 * [[BugSquad/KnowledgeBase/Classes/Triaging | Triaging Class]] - Class given at Ubuntu Open Week in May of 2008 by PedroVillavicencio
 * [[MeetingLogs/openweekhardy/ReportBugs2|Reporting Bugs Class]] - Class given at Ubuntu Open Week in May of 2008 by BrianMurray
 * [[MeetingLogs/openweekMaverick/BugTriagingDo'sAndDoNot's|Triaging DOs and DO NOTs Class]] - Class given at Ubuntu Open Week in October 2010 by [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hggdh|C de-Avillez]]
 * [[Bugs/HowToTriage|How to Triage]] - General summary of how to properly triage bug reports
 * [[Bugs/BestPractices|Best Practices]] - Useful Do's and Don't's for bug reporting
 * [[Bugs/Improving|Improving a Report]] - How to improve a bug report - an essential part of triaging
 * [[Bugs/Checklist|Checklist ]] - A checklist of common actions to perform for bug reports
 * [[ Bugs/HowToTriage/Charts | Bug Status Charts ]] - Find out what the Bug Workflow looks like
 * [[Bugs/FindRightPackage|Find the Right Package]] - How to assign a bug to the correct package
 * [[Bugs/Status|Managing Status]] - When Ubuntu uses which bug status and what they mean to us
 * [[Bugs/Importance|Managing Importance]] - The criteria for setting a bug's importance and definitions
 * [[Bugs/Description|Improving the Bug Description]] - Ways to communicate useful information in the bug description
 * [[Bugs/Tags|Bug Tags]] - In Launchpad it is possible to add "tags" or keywords to a bug report - this is Ubuntu's standardized list
 * [[Bugs/Patches|Patch attachments]] - What is considered a patch and what should happend to bugs with patches.
 * [[Bugs/Assignment|Assigning Bugs]] - When to assign bug reports to individuals or teams
 * [[Bugs/MarkingDuplicate|Marking a Duplicate]] - How and when to mark a bug as a duplicate of another
 * [[Bugs/Watches|Bug Watches]] - How to set up Launchpad to monitor bug reports in other bug tracking systems.
 * [[Bugs/ConvertToQuestion|Converting to a Question]] - How to convert a bug report to a support question.
 * [[DebuggingProcedures|Debugging Procedures]] - Common procedures for debugging types of problems or packages
 * [[DeveloperResponsibilities|Developer Responsibilities]] - Are you trying to find a developer familiar with a particular package or subsystem? Find out how here!
 * [[Bugs/ApportRetraces|Apport Retraces]] - How to understand and use Apport retraces (based on a MOTU/School class by EmmetHikory)
 * [[Bugs/EasyTasks|EasyTasks]] - A list of Easy/Medium/Hard Triaging Tasks.
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[[MeetingLogs/openweekhardy/ReportBugs2|Reporting Bugs Class]] - Class given at Ubuntu Open Week in May of 2008 by BrianMurray = Bug Squad Videos and Presentations =
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[[Bugs/HowToTriage|How to Triage]] - General summary of how to properly triage bug reports

[[Bugs/BestPractices|Best Practices]] - Useful Do's and Don't's for bug reporting

[[Bugs/Improving|Improving a Report]] - How to improve a bug report - an essential part of triaging

[[ Bugs/Checklist | Checklist ]] - A checklist of common actions to perform for bug reports

[[ Bugs/HowToTriage/Charts | Bug Status Charts ]] - Find out what the Bug Workflow looks like

[[Bugs/FindRightPackage|Find the right Package]] - How to assign a bug to the correct package

[[Bugs/Status|Managing Status]] - When Ubuntu uses which bug status and what they mean to us

[[Bugs/Importance|Managing Importance]] - The criteria for setting a bug's importance and definitions

[[Bugs/Description|Improving the Bug Description]] - Ways to communicate useful information in the bug description

[[ Bugs/Tags | Bug Tags ]] - In Launchpad it is possible to add "tags" or keywords to a bug report - this is Ubuntu's standardized list

[[ Bugs/Patches | Patch attachments ]] - What is considered a patch and what should happend to bugs with patches.

[[Bugs/Assignment|Assigning Bugs]] - When to assign bug reports to individuals or teams

[[Bugs/MarkingDuplicate|Marking a Duplicate]] - How and when to mark a bug as a duplicate of another

[[Bugs/Watches|Bug Watches]] - How to set up Launchpad to monitor bug reports in other bug tracking systems.

[[Bugs/ConvertToQuestion|Converting to a Question]] - How to convert a bug report to a support question.

[[DebuggingProcedures|Debugging Procedures]] - Common procedures for debugging types of problems or packages

[[ DeveloperResponsibilities | Developer Responsibilities ]] - Are you trying to find a developer familiar with a particular package or subsystem? Find out how here!

[[Bugs/ApportRetraces|Apport Retraces]] - How to understand and use Apport retraces (based on a MOTU/School class by EmmetHikory)
 * [[http://people.canonical.com/~brian/presentations/2010-02-bug-triage.odp|How to Triage Presentation]] - A presentation by Brian Murray about Bug Triage
 * [[http://youtu.be/Vl-cQDAlPFc | How to Confirm a bug task ]] - Video showing three different ways to confirm a bug task
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[[ Bugs/Responses | Standard Replies ]] - A collection of frequently used replies to bug reports setup for easy copy and pasting

[[ https://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/EmailInterface | Modifying bugs via e-mail ]] - Launchpad Bugs has an e-mail interface for working with bugs

[[ Bugs/HowToFilter | Filtering bug mail ]] - Example procmail rules for filtering any bug e-mail you get

[[ https://help.launchpad.net/API/launchpadlib | launchpadlib ]] - launchpadlib, packaged as '''python-launchpadlib''' in Ubuntu, is a python library for reading and writing to Launchpad - including bugs

[[ http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-launchpad-plugin | Firefox Extension that adds Launchpad integration ]] - Provides quick searches for a variety of Launchpad items - packaged as '''firefox-launchpad-plugin''' in Ubuntu

[[ https://edge.launchpad.net/~gm-dev-launchpad/+archive/ppa | Firefox Extension that modifies Launchpad pages ]] - A PPA package of a Firefox Extension collecting Greasemonkey scripts that Launchpad users find useful

BugHelper - bughelper is a tool to help us triage bugs by parsing reports for clues about the type of bug and then allowing us to share those clues with other triagers

[[ https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~bug-zapper | Bug Zapper ]] - in early development bug zapper is a desktop tool for querying and filtering lists of bugs

= Bug Statistics and Reports =

[[ http://status.qa.ubuntu.com/qapkgstatus/ | Ubuntu package status pages ]] - Package status pages are intended to help package maintainers, developers, and other interested parties identify the current state of a package. They are available for lots of packages in Ubuntu.

[[http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Plots/|Ubuntu bug graph]] - pretty pictures showing the quantity of bugs reported about Ubuntu
 * [[http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/testing_graphs/|List of all graphs]] - Packages with 100+ bugs are currently being graphed
 * [[http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/complete-graphs/|List of complete graphs]] - These graphs are more complete as they capture each possible bug status or importance

[[http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/reports/|Bug query reports]] - Bug queries using the bughelper suite that are run daily. Reports run include:
 * bugs with [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/package/gt2dupes/ | more than 2 duplicates ]]
 * bugs with [[http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/reports/gt5comments|more than 5 comments]]
 * bugs with [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/package/gt5subscribers |more than 5 subscribers ]]
 * bugs with [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/bugs-with-most-duplicates.html | the most duplicates ]]
 * oldest [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/oldest-new-ubuntu-bug-tasks.html | New bug reports]]
 * oldest [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/oldest-incomplete-ubuntu-bug-tasks.html | Incomplete bug reports]]
 * oldest [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/oldest-confirmed-ubuntu-bug-tasks.html | Confirmed bug reports]]
 * oldest [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/oldest-triaged-ubuntu-bug-tasks.html | Triaged bug reports]]
 * oldest [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/oldest-in-progress-ubuntu-bug-tasks.html | In Progress bug reports]]
 * oldest [[ http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/launchpad-database/oldest-fix-committed-ubuntu-bug-tasks.html | Fix Committed bug reports]]
 * bugs [[http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/reports/recent/|reported in the last week]], per package
 * [[http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/bugnumbers/yesterday.html|Yesterday's bugs]]

[[http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/devscripts|Ubuntu Developer Scripts]] - The devscripts package includes a lot of useful tools including rmadison which tells you the current package version for every supported release of Ubuntu.

[[http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/ubuntu-qa-tools|Ubuntu QA Tools]] - The ubuntu-qa-tools package is a collection of useful tools that Ubuntu QA team uses to make their daily work a lot easier.
 * [[Bugs/Responses|Standard Replies]] - A collection of frequently used replies to bug reports setup for easy copy and pasting
 * [[https://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/EmailInterface|Modifying bugs via e-mail]] - Launchpad Bugs has an e-mail interface for working with bugs
 * [[ Bugs/HowToFilter | Filtering bug mail ]] - Example procmail rules for filtering any bug e-mail you get
 * [[ https://help.launchpad.net/API/launchpadlib | launchpadlib ]] - launchpadlib, packaged as '''python-launchpadlib''' in Ubuntu, is a python library for reading and writing to Launchpad - including bugs
 * [[ http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-launchpad-plugin | Firefox Extension that adds Launchpad integration ]] - Provides quick searches for a variety of Launchpad items - packaged as '''firefox-launchpad-plugin''' in Ubuntu
 * [[ https://launchpad.net/~gm-dev-launchpad/+archive/ppa | Firefox Extension that modifies Launchpad pages ]] - A PPA package of a Firefox Extension collecting Greasemonkey scripts that Launchpad users find useful
 * BugHelper - bughelper is a tool to help us triage bugs by parsing reports for clues about the type of bug and then allowing us to share those clues with other triagers
 * [[ https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-bugcontrol/apport/ubuntu-bugpatterns | Apport Bug Patterns ]] - bug patterns are checked by apport when filing crash reports and are useful for preventing unnecessary duplicate reports in Launchpad
 * [[ http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/devscripts | Ubuntu Developer Scripts ]] - The '''devscripts''' package includes a lot of useful tools including rmadison which tells you the current package version for every supported release of Ubuntu.
 * [[ https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-qa-tools | Ubuntu QA Tools ]] - The '''ubuntu-qa-tools''' package is a collection of useful tools that Ubuntu QA team uses to make their daily work a lot easier.
 * [[ https://launchpad.net/bughugger | Bug Hugger ]] - Bug Hugger is an extensible Python/pgtk Client for Managing Bug Tasks related to Ubuntu on Launchpad
 * [[ https://launchpad.net/arsenal | Arsenal ]] - a toolset for interacting with Launchpad, generating specialized reports, performing powerful operations against launchpad, and assisting in the generation and testing of software packages. Primarily used by the Xorg team.
 * [[BugSquad/Factoids| Factoids]] - A collection of frequently used bot factoids
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[[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-datecreated&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.importance%3Alist=UNKNOWN&field.importance%3Alist=UNDECIDED&assignee_option=any&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.bug_supervisor=&field.bug_commenter=&field.subscriber=&field.component-empty-marker=1&field.status_upstream-empty-marker=1&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used=&field.has_cve.used=&field.tag=-needs-packaging&field.tags_combinator=ANY&field.has_no_package.used=&field.has_no_package=on|New and No Package]] - These bugs need triaging and a package  * [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-datecreated&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.importance%3Alist=UNDECIDED&assignee_option=none&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.bug_contact=&field.bug_commenter=&field.subscriber=&field.component-empty-marker=1&field.status_upstream-empty-marker=1&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used=&field.has_cve.used=&field.tag=&field.tags_combinator=ANY&field.has_no_package.used=&field.has_no_package=on&search=Search|New and No Package]] - These bugs need triaging and a package
 * [[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-datecreated&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=New&field.importance%3Alist=Undecided&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch=&field.component%3Alist=1&field.component%3Alist=2&field.has_no_package=|New Bugs]] - These bugs have not been triaged at all
 * [[https://launchpad.net/bugs/bugtrackers/|Bugtrackers in Launchpad]] - Useful for finding lists of links between bugs reported in Launchpad and upstream bug reports
 * [[One Hundred Papercuts]] - Trivial to fix, but annoying bugs. Ideal for getting started helping with bugs.
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[[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-datecreated&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=New&field.importance%3Alist=Undecided&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch=&field.component%3Alist=1&field.component%3Alist=2&field.has_no_package=|New Bugs]] - These bugs have not been triaged at all

[[https://launchpad.net/bugs/bugtrackers/|Bugtrackers in Launchpad]] - Useful for finding lists of links between bugs reported in Launchpad and upstream bug reports

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Working with Bugs

Bug Squad Videos and Presentations

Bug Tools

  • Standard Replies - A collection of frequently used replies to bug reports setup for easy copy and pasting

  • Modifying bugs via e-mail - Launchpad Bugs has an e-mail interface for working with bugs

  • Filtering bug mail - Example procmail rules for filtering any bug e-mail you get

  • launchpadlib - launchpadlib, packaged as python-launchpadlib in Ubuntu, is a python library for reading and writing to Launchpad - including bugs

  • Firefox Extension that adds Launchpad integration - Provides quick searches for a variety of Launchpad items - packaged as firefox-launchpad-plugin in Ubuntu

  • Firefox Extension that modifies Launchpad pages - A PPA package of a Firefox Extension collecting Greasemonkey scripts that Launchpad users find useful

  • BugHelper - bughelper is a tool to help us triage bugs by parsing reports for clues about the type of bug and then allowing us to share those clues with other triagers

  • Apport Bug Patterns - bug patterns are checked by apport when filing crash reports and are useful for preventing unnecessary duplicate reports in Launchpad

  • Ubuntu Developer Scripts - The devscripts package includes a lot of useful tools including rmadison which tells you the current package version for every supported release of Ubuntu.

  • Ubuntu QA Tools - The ubuntu-qa-tools package is a collection of useful tools that Ubuntu QA team uses to make their daily work a lot easier.

  • Bug Hugger - Bug Hugger is an extensible Python/pgtk Client for Managing Bug Tasks related to Ubuntu on Launchpad

  • Arsenal - a toolset for interacting with Launchpad, generating specialized reports, performing powerful operations against launchpad, and assisting in the generation and testing of software packages. Primarily used by the Xorg team.

  • Factoids - A collection of frequently used bot factoids

Launchpad Bug Queries


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