On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 10:09 -0500, Keith wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'm excited to join the bugzappers/triage team. I've had some experience with RedHat from long ago, and have used Fedora since Fedora Core 9. I guessed it was time to give a little something back for all that the community has given me. Though since I am new to the process and triaging I would like to ask for a little help, possibly a mentor.

By day I'm a systems administrator/web programmer for a consulting company. I mainly admin web, mail and dns servers running Fedora. By night I'm a computer science student working on my bachelors degree.

If anyone wishes to contact me, I can be reached at this email address, or in irc by the nickname daelious.

Hi, Keith, welcome to the group! I have approved your group membership. Here is a list of components which we'd like BugZappers to work on as a priority, there's lots available.

The list is: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Components_and_Triagers

we'd recommend you pick a component from that list that you feel comfortable working on, then contact its maintainer to say you'll be working on triaging it, and ask if they have any tips or special requests. Then read:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugsAndFeatureRequests https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Tools https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/FindingBugs https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/How_to_Triage https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/FindingDuplicates https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/StockBugzillaResponses

to see how the process works (I know that looks like a lot of pages, but several of them are pretty short, and they all work together). Please do join #fedora-bugzappers and ask if you have any questions or problems, there's usually another team member around who can help you out. Thanks a lot for volunteering your time! Do come out to the next meeting - they're Tuesdays at 15:00 UTC - if you have the time, and we can welcome you there.

As for a mentor, I know Matej Cepl is interested in mentoring new members - is anyone else interested in helping Keith get started? Please do volunteer if so. Thanks!