Bug Jam Steps

From Club Ubuntu

The following is an excerpt from a conversation with WastePotato, copied with his permission in order so that anyone can see how easy it is to get started.

16:12 <emma> hey are you here?
16:12 <WastePotato> Yep.
16:12 <emma> Good hi :)
16:12 <WastePotato> Where did you need me to add my name again?
16:12 <emma> did you make a launchpad account?
16:12 <WastePotato> Already have one. :D
16:12 <emma> okay cool
16:13 <emma> did you join the 5-a-day team?
16:13 <WastePotato> I'll do it right now. I've been getting organised. :)
16:14 <emma> https://launchpad.net/~5-a-day-participants
16:14 <emma> have to join that team to have them count.
16:14 <WastePotato> Done.
16:15 <emma> okay now when you go to your profile on launchpad, what does it 
            say in the url after the ~ 
16:15 <WastePotato> wastepotato
16:16 <emma> okay
16:17 <emma> Now you go to this page, edit the wiki and put wastepotato along 
            with odd-rationale, emnode, and mystic-scientist --- 
            https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Events
16:18 <WastePotato> K. Done.
16:19 <emma> okay then you are set :)
16:19 <WastePotato> :D
16:21 <emma> Now take a look at this page, for an idea of what we do, 
            especially scroll down to the bottom where there's a chart of 
            potential bug targets -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlobalBugJam
16:22 <emma> Or take a look at this -- 
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G_AcMQbSRw&fmt=18|YouTube
16:22 <WastePotato> Ok.
16:24 <emma> Here's the list of uncategorized bugs -- 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-datecreated&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=New&field.assignee=&field.owner=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch=&field.has_no_package=on

16:24 <emma> every one that you read and match with a package, you get credit 
            for and so does our team. :)
16:25 <WastePotato> o: This doesn't look too hard.
16:28 <emma> no! you see what i'm saying?!

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