Re: Question - Starting in Debian-QA
Hi Paul,
Your colleague Bart Martens answered one part of my questions, but
your answer will surely make it easier for me to put myself on the
right tracks. Thank you on the helpful links, will start digging in
them immediately.
Out of the technical skills that I possess and are significant to the
subject matter, most useful would probably be some degree of C/C++
programming, Python scripting and a good degree of networking
knowledge. Something else that's not maybe as much useful in this
subject is mostly PHP programming and other web oriented technologies.
With all said, I figure I should start with the simplest way (I don't
mind te "most work" part :) and bug triage, so I'll search through the
links and if I stumble, I'll yell for help.
Thank you for your time and answer.
Regards,
--
Damir Andrasevic
dandrase@gmail.com
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Damir Andrasevic wrote:
>>
>>> I am among others, user of Debian, so I would like to help out and
>>> give back my share to the community (and also learn something new
>>> along the way, off course).
>>> I have wandered around Debian web and given my present expertise I
>>> feel the most competent (for now) to help with the bug part (finding,
>>> testing and so on). So, my question in fact is, how or where does one
>>> starts to help, if somebody could point me into the right direction
>>> cause I'm not really sure where and what to start doing excatly.
>>
>> Could you let us know what technical skills you have?
>>
>> There are lots of different strategies to finding bugs.
>>
>> The simplest but the most work would be to try out each package,
>> filing bugs for all the issues you can see. This work is the most
>> useful for packages that don't yet have bugs filed against them.
>>
>> We also need people to help with bug triage, especially for packages
>> with large numbers of filed bugs, often the teams or individuals
>> maintaining them do not have enough time to look through filed bugs
>> and see if they still exist or not.
>>
>> http://wiki.debian.org/BugTriage
>>
>> You may also want to help with the next release, in that case, there
>> are lots of Release-Critical bugs to be fixed.
>>
>> http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/07/14/how-to-squash-debian-release-critical-bugs/
>> http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
>> http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi
>>
>> In Debian we tend to prefer to do automated testing/checking since it
>> is less work. You can find some examples of the automated
>> testing/checking we do in Debian on the QA wiki pages:
>>
>> http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org
>>
>> --
>> bye,
>> pabs
>>
>> http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
>>
>>
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