EmperorFool
Deity
Seeking Help with Bug Triage
Now that more people are using BUG, we're getting more bug reports. This is great as it helps us find problems, but I feel we're getting a little swamped. I haven't had enough time to fix bugs, let alone track them.
So, I'm putting out a request for anyone in the community that would like to help out with a little time by doing bug triage. It may not sound sexy (though feel free to call yourself a field medic), but what it means is that you'd take bug reports from the forums and put them into a tracker or spreadsheet, describe it, and assign a severity (how harsh the bug is).
Once there, it's easier for the coders to pick out the bugs that are highest priority or in their skill area so we can fix them quickly without having to remember them or scour the forum posts. Sometimes I have a half hour and could fix a bug or two, and any time I don't spend rereading posts to pick which to fix is more bugs fixed.
If anyone has a little free time and would like to help the project, please PM me. You don't need any experience with coding, and you don't have to worry about committing a set amount of time.
For any career-minded individuals, this would be experience applicable to Quality Assurance, something still sorely lacking in a lot of software I think we can all agree.
Now that more people are using BUG, we're getting more bug reports. This is great as it helps us find problems, but I feel we're getting a little swamped. I haven't had enough time to fix bugs, let alone track them.
So, I'm putting out a request for anyone in the community that would like to help out with a little time by doing bug triage. It may not sound sexy (though feel free to call yourself a field medic), but what it means is that you'd take bug reports from the forums and put them into a tracker or spreadsheet, describe it, and assign a severity (how harsh the bug is).
Once there, it's easier for the coders to pick out the bugs that are highest priority or in their skill area so we can fix them quickly without having to remember them or scour the forum posts. Sometimes I have a half hour and could fix a bug or two, and any time I don't spend rereading posts to pick which to fix is more bugs fixed.
If anyone has a little free time and would like to help the project, please PM me. You don't need any experience with coding, and you don't have to worry about committing a set amount of time.
For any career-minded individuals, this would be experience applicable to Quality Assurance, something still sorely lacking in a lot of software I think we can all agree.