On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:35 AM, David Nielsen <
gnomeuser gmail com> wrote:
> Hi list,
> For some years whenever I have encountered a person complaining about a
> problem with Banshee I have offered to help file the bug correctly and CC
> myself to ensure that it isn't forgotten.
> This has been rather a remarkable experience, both personally but also for
> Banshee users. It also doesn't take long, typically the issues are easy to
> narrow down. All one needs to lend a hand making bugreports better, outside
> of a little time, is some basic knowledge of how to enable and read debug
> data from Banshee. As an example of this I have written up an article which
> should appear on
OMGUbuntu.co.uk shortly. It is also my intend to expand
> outreach efforts by proposing I contribute a "This Week in Banshee" post
> every week to summerize what has been going on in Banshee.
> I would suggest that users interested in being a BBB (Sorry I couldn't find
> a funny one for BFF) lacking the basic skills read my article when it goes
> up. There are plenty of references and ideas for how to narrow down a
> problem. The next step would be to join the #banshee channel on GIMPnet
> (
irc.gimp.org). A lot of users already pop into the channel with problems
> but don't get any response (or lack the patience to stick around for more
> than a few minutes). I would like to encourage this realtime resource for
> people to get help and for us to distribute the workload of narrowing down
> our bug list.
> Another BBB task could be to review our existing buglist to identify likely
> outdated and invalid bugs, set NEEDINFO with instructions on how to upgrade,
> retest and collect errors (if needed). This also is very simple and only
> requires one to spend a bit of time learning to read the output of --debug
> (and occasionally basic output of --debug-sql). For some retest bugs the
> requests are general so we can create a set of Wikipages with explanations
> (I would suggest looking at how Gendarme's rules documentation is organized
> for the simplicity and clarity we should strive for - together we can do
> it).
> An obvious stumbling block for users with problems is even getting to the
> correct IRC channel, short term I think a quick guide or an irc client
> embedded in the website is th way to go. However long term I think we could
> benefit from looking at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lernid . I believe such an
> approach would give us the change to even skip the step of installing an
> application (afterall it could come with Banshee), it would allow us to tie
> into the bug system and display relevant information. I suspect the amount
> of changes required to Lernid to get there would be fairly small.
> I have plenty of time the rest of August to work building a community. I
> don't have any skils to lend to most of the coding tasks, but I have a lot
> of time on my hands. September and onwards I am moving to Brazil but will
> continue to be involved, just at different hours. A little less time is
> likely going to be available for this work by then on account of language
> classes and naturally spending time with my fiancée, so I hope to have
> trained a bunch of replacement Davids by then.
> For now, I really encourage people to join us on IRC, it is a lot of fun and
> no problem is to small, no amount of talent should be to small to get
> through reporting bug.
> - David
