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Re: Debian BTS Cleanup HOWTO



On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 07:53:45AM +0200, Tina Isaksen wrote:

> And bug triage seems both fun, educational and usefull.

Indeed, and it's a great help to the Debian project.
 
> So a couple of questions... do I need to do something, like register or 
> apply for something, apart from what is mentioned here or is just diving 
> in the way to go. 

The bug tracking system can be uses by everyone, so you just have to
get acquainted with the tools and go ahead.

> Do I need a signed gpg key? 

No.

> Does someone have som 
> basic advice on how to get started or some usefull sites on the topic? I 
> googled for it but didn't find much apart from the Debian developer 
> manuals...

An understanding of how packages work is necessary (cf. Debian policy
and Developers' Reference).

For the BTS itself:
Goto http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ and read the linked sections at the
beginning.

Useful tools: "reportbug" and "bts".

Interesting and helpful pages:
http://women.alioth.debian.org/wiki/index.php/English/HomePage ->
Articles, esp. 
http://women.alioth.debian.org/wiki/index.php/English/NewBTSHowTo and
http://women.alioth.debian.org/wiki/index.php/English/AdvancedBuildingTips

RC (= release-critical) bugs:
http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php

Bug Squashing Party hints (containing help on fixing bugs):
http://wiki.debian.org/BSP 
http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/rc-bugsquashing.html

HTH,
gregor
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