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Fedora Classroom - Introduction to Bug Triage - Jon Stanley - Saturday, December 6, 2008
| -!- nirik changed the topic of #fedora-classroom to: Fedora IRC Classroom - Introduction to Bug Triage with Jon Stanley ( jds2001 ). Communicate/IRC/Classroom for schedule and more information. | 13:30 | |
| inode0 | I like it | 13:30 |
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| jds2001 | inode0: i didnt come up with that template, poelcat did :) | 13:30 |
| jds2001 | unsure of where he got it, i just came up with content :) | 13:31 |
| inode0 | that is the part we are here for | 13:31 |
| jds2001 | anyhow, so that presentation is great for notes afterwards, I'm not going to belabor every slide in it, and we'll actually triage some bugs now | 13:32 |
| spevack | nice | 13:32 |
| jds2001 | so in order to triage bugs, you need some special permissions in bugzilla. | 13:32 |
| jds2001 | you can get those by applying for the 'fedorabugs' group in FAS | 13:33 |
| jds2001 | So long as you have signed the CLA, I or someone else will approve you, no questions asked. | 13:33 |
| ethospir | jds2001, you wouldn't have the presentation as images I suppose ? | 13:33 |
| jds2001 | ethospir: i can save it as pdf if you like | 13:34 |
| ethospir | jds2001, yes please :) | 13:34 |
| @nirik | jds2001: I can do that if you like and you can keep going? | 13:35 |
| jds2001 | already done :) | 13:35 |
| jds2001 | http://jstanley.fedorapeople.org/bug-triage-2008-jun-17-jstanley.pdf | 13:36 |
| ethospir | thank you. | 13:36 |
| @nirik | cool. | 13:36 |
| jds2001 | so even though membership in 'fedorabugs' is "automatic", i.e. no questions asked, it is still a manual process. | 13:37 |
| jds2001 | sometimes I get to them in as little as 5 minutes, sometimes it takes me a few days. | 13:37 |
| jds2001 | feel free to prod me with a stick if you have an unapproved request :) | 13:38 |
| jds2001 | after you're approved for the group, the sync with bugzilla takes place every hour. | 13:38 |
| jds2001 | so anyhow, what is triage, and why would I want to do it? | 13:38 |
| * MartinCo is glad he did n't miss it | 13:39 | |
| jds2001 | triage is a very simple way to give back to the community, and hopefully get your bugs fixed faster, by freeing maintainers from having to deal with triage themselves. | 13:40 |
| jds2001 | it requires very little technical knowledge, but can use as much as you have. | 13:40 |
| jds2001 | so the continuing goal that we have is the effective triage of rawhide. | 13:41 |
| jds2001 | Since that's going to be the highest value. Don't think that you *can't* triage released versions, we need people for that too. | 13:42 |
| jds2001 | Simply our resources are limited at the moment, and we've found that to be the most effective way to use them. | 13:42 |
| jds2001 | so the basic premise of triage is this: | 13:43 |
| jds2001 | 1) Is the bug complete and actionable? | 13:43 |
| jds2001 | 2) Is it filed against the right component | 13:43 |
| jds2001 | 3) Is it something we *can* fix? (i.e. not having to do with propietary nvidia drivers, adobe flash, whatnot) | 13:44 |
| jds2001 | 4) Is it a duplicate? | 13:44 |
| jds2001 | those four things are really all that you need to know! | 13:45 |
| jds2001 | on slide 5, there's a picture of what the state transistions for a bug can look like | 13:47 |
| jds2001 | I'd like to thank John Poelstra for the picture, he's great at these things! :) | 13:47 |
| jds2001 | does it make sense, or should I explain it a little further (I figure a picture is worth 1000 words :) ). | 13:48 |
| * jds2001 moves on, I guess | 13:49 | |
| John5342 | jds2001: just a reminder that bug lifecycle has changed ever so slightly (although not that relevant to triage). got the link handy if you want it | 13:49 |
| * nirik thinks it makes sense... ;) | 13:50 | |
| jds2001 | sure. | 13:50 |
| * MartinCo opens the pdf | 13:50 | |
| John5342 | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow | 13:50 |
| John5342 | just the adition of the optional on_dev state | 13:50 |
| jds2001 | oh, right. | 13:50 |
| John5342 | not overly relevant though. sorry for the interruption | 13:51 |
| jds2001 | some maintainers were concerned about us putting bugs into ASSIGNED without their review and teams internal triage. | 13:51 |
| jds2001 | so the state ON_DEV is used by those teams. | 13:51 |
| jds2001 | also somewhat important to note that this slide was written for the old version of bugzilla. | 13:52 |
| jds2001 | recently, we introduced a new version, 3.2. This is a rather drastic UI change, but most of the workflow is the same. | 13:53 |
| jds2001 | the important exception is that NEEDINFO is no longer an independent bug state, it's a "flag" | 13:53 |
| jds2001 | and at the bottom of the comment box, there's an option to set the flag and request the info of a specific person. | 13:54 |
| jds2001 | any questions? | 13:55 |
| ethospir | The triager knows whom to assign the bug to ? | 13:57 |
| jds2001 | the assignee is defaulted for each bug to the component owner. | 13:58 |
| ethospir | ok | 13:59 |
| jds2001 | so unless someone has changed it, it's probably right. There's also co-maintainers that would be on the initial CC list. | 13:59 |
| jds2001 | any more? | 14:00 |
| jds2001 | alright, what about actually triaging a bug or two? | 14:02 |
| ethospir | sure :) | 14:03 |
| jds2001 | OK, I've found a bug that is highly likely a duplicate :) | 14:04 |
| jds2001 | but maybe not :) | 14:04 |
| jds2001 | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474956 | 14:04 |
| jds2001 | for those that might not now, we introduced a new version of python into rawhide on Thursday, and there's a lot of breakage to be expected. | 14:05 |
| jds2001 | so for this, let's use a different interface to search for yum bugs. | 14:06 |
| jds2001 | http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/yum | 14:06 |
| jds2001 | well, i just searched that page for "deprecation" and didnt see any right off the top | 14:09 |
| jds2001 | and this has already been looked at by a maintainer of yum, so I'm just going to move this one to ASSIGNED. | 14:09 |
| jds2001 | any questions? | 14:11 |
| jds2001 | although if we wanted to be complete on this one, you'll notice that one of the deprecation warnings comes from python-iniparse, we can make sure a bug is filed there as well. | 14:14 |
| jds2001 | and I don't see one, unless it's closed. | 14:15 |
| ethospir | Please feel free to ignore this if its not something you wanted to cover in the classroom. This bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474084 looks like it needs to go from ASSIGNED to NEED_INFO ? | 14:17 |
| jds2001 | it already is. Like I said, it's now a flag, rather than a state. | 14:18 |
| jds2001 | It's a little confusing. | 14:18 |
| ethospir | right. | 14:18 |
| jds2001 | first, in the subject line, you see [NEEDINFO] - that's automatically put there by bugzilla on that display page when something is in needinfo | 14:18 |
| jds2001 | then in the right column, under flags, you can see the needinfo flag. | 14:19 |
| ethospir | yes. | 14:19 |
| jds2001 | I've only got about 10 minutes left here, any other questions or should I wrap it up? | 14:21 |
| @nirik | how can one find bugs to tirage? | 14:22 |
| @nirik | and what areas are in most need? | 14:22 |
| jds2001 | oof, completely missed that. | 14:22 |
| jds2001 | there are RSS feeds and preformatted queries on this page: | 14:23 |
| jds2001 | BugZappers/FindingBugs | 14:23 |
| jds2001 | and the areas most in need is always rawhide, however, releases could use help as well. | 14:24 |
| jds2001 | We've just decided to concentrate our limited resources on rawhide for now, especially towards the end of a release. However, it'd be nice to be able to tackle it from the get-go, right now :) | 14:25 |
| * nirik nods | 14:26 | |
| jds2001 | I hope this has been helpful, and I'll likely repeat it in February, and in person at FUDCon Boston if you'll be attending there. | 14:28 |
| -!- nirik changed the topic of #fedora-classroom to: Fedora IRC Classroom - Class break. Next class starting at 14:45UTC. See Communicate/IRC/Classroom for schedule and more information. | 14:28 | |
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