GlobalBugJam
Global Bug Jam
Everybody knows what a great success our institution the UbuntuBugDay is. Some LoCo teams even took this further: instead of just meeting on IRC, they made a party out of it and met locally to work on bugs together. We call this event the "Global Bug Jam". It is the classic Ubuntu Hug Day, taken to the next level, all around the world during one weekend. It's an opportunity for Local Teams to get together all around the world and concentrate on fixing bugs, meet new people, and just have a good time.
On the weekend of the 20 February to 22 February we'll do the same, globally!
How to do it
So you're interested and want to make the event ROCK in your LoCo?
You will probably need to organising a venue, promote the event in your local area, run the jam and solicite feedback afterwards. We have a document called RunningBugJam that provides some help on how to do these things, with tips and tricks from other LoCos who have run jams in the past.
Check out GlobalBugJam.pdf - it's a one-page cheatsheet document, print out a few and have a small stack of them at the venue (also check out our Bug Jam Material section).
Special planning:
- Ask locals early who's interested in the event
Ask what packages/kind of bugs your participants are interested in
- We will try to organise specialists for the event who can assist and help out via IRC
Need Help?
Has your team never done this before? Don't worry, we'll have sessions for LoCo leaders and people interested in running bug jams for their LoCos. Show up to any of these sessions to get tips and best practices on how to run a successful event. These sessions will take place in #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode IRC. See this page for help with IRC.
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Date |
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Speaker |
How to Run a Bug Jam |
1/30/09 |
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How to Run a Bug Jam |
1/31/09 |
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How to Run a Bug Jam |
2/13/09 |
Daniel Holbach |
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How to Run a Bug Jam |
2/14/09 |
* Click on the UTC time to see the corresponding date and time in your time zone.
There is also a video tutorial on the Ubuntu Developer's Channel.
The List
Is your Local Team participating? Add yourself to this list, and don't forget to reach out to people in your area to participate.
Continent |
Country |
City |
Team |
Where |
Interests |
Comments |
Africa |
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South Africa |
Johannesburg |
Ubuntu-ZA |
TBD |
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Americas |
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USA |
Chicago, IL |
Desktop and Server |
See the Chicago Team's projects page for more detailed information |
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USA |
Rochester |
Barnes and Noble @ RIT |
Desktop, Laptop |
February 21st |
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USA |
Syracuse |
TBD |
Desktop, Laptop |
TBD |
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USA |
New City |
TBD |
Desktop, Laptop |
TBD |
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USA |
Various |
IRC |
Desktop, Laptop |
TBD |
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USA |
TBD |
TBD |
Desktop |
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USA |
Washington, DC |
TBD |
Anything |
TBD |
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Chile |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
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Asia |
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Australia |
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Europe |
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France |
Toulouse |
ubuntu-fr |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
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France |
Paris |
ubuntu-fr |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
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Germany |
Berlin |
TBD |
TBD |
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Germany |
Hannover |
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TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
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Ireland |
Dublin |
Desktop, Laptop |
TBD |
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International |
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irc.freenode.net |
##club-ubuntu |
##club-ubuntu-bugs |
TBD |
A virtual, friendly LoCo. See http://club-ubuntu.org/ for more info. |
Potential bug targets
Here are some interesting bug lists to work from for the Global Bug Jam!
The Level column indicate the difficulty of the bugs on the list for being Triaged, those are divided into three levels:
Easy |
Medium |
Hard |
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Type of bugs |
Triage Example |
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Bugs without a package and tagged apport-bug so contain lots of information |
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Ensure that the bugs are the same before linking |
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Oldest bugs with a Incomplete status - updated every 24 hours |
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Oldest bugs with a Confirmed status - updated every 24 hours |
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Least recently changed bugs without a package and with a New status |
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Least recently changed bugs without a package and with an Incomplete status |
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Least recently changed bugs without a package and with a Confirmed status |
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Kernel bugs with patches attached: linux, linux-fsl-imx51, linux-ec2, linux-mvl-dove |
Paper Cuts
New to paper cuts? Start here.
During the Event
- Have somebody of the team there who can answer Bug Triage specific questions.
Ask a few people to forward questions to #ubuntu-bugs if necessary.
Share your interesting and fun stories on GlobalBugJam/Stories along with pictures, videos and what else you can think of.
Use the flickr tag global-bugjam-february-09.
- Blog and Twitter/Dent about your success.
Make use of 5-A-Day.
Use the 5-a-day Tag global-february-09-<city>.
Play Bug Jam Bingo!
Upstream Participation
We encourage upstream projects to piggyback on the Global Bug Jam and use this as an opportunity to work with Ubuntu and participate. Please list your project here and a point of contact and run your own jam along with us! If you're an Ubuntu participant and interested in working with a specific upstream project, add your name (or LoCo) to the last column.
Ubuntu bugsquad volunteers can help upstreams by triaging bugs for a specific project, file bugs upstream and link them to launchpad, and help upstreams triage their own bugs. Upstream point of contacts should be in #ubuntu-bugs as well to help coordinate/triage volunteers as the Jam takes place.
Project |
Upstream Point of Contact Name/Nick |
IRC Channel |
Ubuntu Point of Contact Name/Nick |
KDE |
RichardJohnson (nixternal) |
#kde | #kde-devel | #kubuntu-devel | #ubuntu-chicago |
RichardJohnson (nixternal) |