Ubuntu Wiki

Summary

• What is triaging and how it helps:
  • In a hospital "triage" is the process of separating the very badly wounded from those who are lightly wounded. In the Free Software/Ubuntu World, it's the process of separating and identifying bugs that are most severe and most useful for the developers out from the inevitable mountain of bugs that will come in. This is getting done by setting priorities, severities and milestone them in Launchpad.
• Joining the team and communicating with them
• How to report a good bug

• Improving a bug report https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Improving

  • Identifying package and version
  • Steps to reproduce it
  • Descriptive summary
    • Click the pencil to the right of Bug description
• Find the right package

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage

• Status and gathering more info/ getting help

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures

• Assignment & Subscription