I think one way that non technical people can help is by trying to replicate bugs, if they
follow the steps as described in the bugreport Do you get the same malfunction or not.
That would be a great help as it weeds out invalid bugreports
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On 2011-02-12, at 17:26, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Ryan Lane
<rlane32(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Have a
bugathon where we label a lot of bugs as appropriate bugathon bugs
that need either:
a) test patch / update patch to recent svn version
a) confirmation / replication of new / unconfirmed bugs
We can provide a simple ready to go Wiki installation for people to use for
bug triaging and that way we can re-energize developers and clean up some of
the backlog of bugs.
Is this something that we should be doing?
This is something we do at hack-a-tons. I don't remember the number of
bugs smashed at the last one, but it was a decent number.
I believe the next hack-a-ton is in Berlin, soon. I'm not sure if they
have this planned. It's apparently GLAM focused (which excludes devs
like me), so I'd imagine not, unless the bugs targeted are GLAM
related.
- Ryan Lane
I'm curious: is there a way that non-technical people can help with
sprints like this? Documentation-building, maybe? Something else? I'm
interested in development sprints, bugathons etc that involve both
technical & non-technical people; I've been involved in a few and it's
pretty fun. But I don't know how many useful ways non-programmers &
non-developers can help.
-- phoebe
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