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I hope the subject line have increased your curiosity to go through
the email :). <br>
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As a community, we are looking for contributors for GlusterFS bug
triage and hopefully this mail will give you enough motivation for
it. <br>
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As mentioned in the subject , bug triage will help to get bugs fixed
quicker, and features implemented sooner. If you are not sure what
bug triage means, please refer the gluster wiki page [1] for bug
triage.<br>
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Here are few questions and answers to help you if this is something
you should do.<br>
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<ul>
<li>Q: Why we need to do bug triage?</li>
<li>A: It reduces the time between reporting a bug and the
availability of a fix enormously.</li>
<ul>
<li>Because many developers have bad response times for new bugs
that are not pointed out to them. When well triaged bugs get
assigned to right developers, the response time improves. <br>
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<li>Also developers work mainly on writing bug fixes and
implementing new features. Which in turn results in to
spending (too little) time on bug triaging. <br>
</li>
</ul>
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<li>Q: I am just a GlusterFS user. Why bug triage will help me? <br>
</li>
<li>A: It will increase your understanding of GlusterFS, current
issues in GlusterFS, increase the interaction between
developers, community and triager. It will also help filing
better bugs too. The better the bug report, the easier it is for
a developer to write a fix. </li>
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<li>Q: Do you run GlusterFS in production?</li>
<li>A: If your answer is yes, then bug triage is the right
platform for you to raise the importance of bugs. Bug triage
will also help you know existing issues in the version of
GlusterFS you are using, help you to know existing issues in a
new feature. So you will be in a better position to decide if a
feature is production ready or not.</li>
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<li>Q: I want to contribute to GlusterFS. Will bug triage help?</li>
<li>A: Yes, it is an awesome place to start. You will get to know
about all the components in GlusterFS along with issues in each
of them. This knowledge will help you to do better testing,
development (bug fixing) etc. Also you will interact with
developers while triaging bugs. You can use these interactions
to ask more detailed questions. </li>
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<li>Q: How can I triage bugs of GlusterFS?</li>
<li>A: The wiki page [1] is the right place start. We are starting
up a bi-weekly/weekly triage meeting in #gluster-meeting on
Freenode. There would be another mail with details about the
meeting. You can join the meeting and interact with other
triagers.</li>
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Please don't hesitate to hit the reply button if you have any
question on this. We would love to hear your suggestions/feed back
:).<br>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Bug_triage">http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Bug_triage</a><br>
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Thanks,<br>
On behalf of the bug triage team<br>
#gluster-dev, #gluster on Freenode<br>
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