Like I mentioned in the previous thread, I am more than happy to help out in any way.  I have always wanted to get involved in Fedora, and I am currently an Ambassador.  I would like to do more "hands-on" work in the distro itself, but I have no programming experience.  
Bug triage seems like a cool thing to do for someone like me.

Would it be possible to start an ember on BugZappers?  What can I do to help?



On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 12:42 -0700, Joe Wulf wrote:
> Adam,
>
>
> Wondering, as an organizational issue, if bugzappers has died out
> because it is just too painful a 'job' to keep up with.  Sure people
> would come with high energy in the beginning, but their enthusiasm
> wanes when the rewards don't keep up with the level of effort to
> accomplish it diligently and ever-so-successfully.  So many, I am
> sure, have other interests, and life in general can just get in the
> way of hobbyists.  Your suggestion about having a person who's JOB it
> is to accomplish triaging, might really be the right course of action.
> They'll be paid to stick around and invest themselves in making Fedora
> better.

As Bill said, RH has paid people to triage in the past (mcepl comes to
mind), and we may want to do so again. So far as the volunteer side
goes, your theory may well be correct; it's actually quite hard to tell.
One of the issues with triaging is that it's less of a communal thing
than you might initially imagine: you tend to wind up with a group of
people doing entirely separate work. If I'm triaging X bugs, and you're
triaging Firefox bugs, and Anna, Bob and Charlotte are all triaging
other components, we don't actually have much to talk to each other
about. So you don't get that catalyst of discussion that other groups
get, people just wind up ploughing their solitary fields. We often had
weekly meetings where we'd talk about the white elephant project of
producing some stats on triage (another thing that never quite got done)
and then...just leave, because there wasn't really anything else to say.

If you managed to hit some kind of critical mass where you could have
five people working on some components, at least each group of five
people could talk to each other. But we never got there.

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