Hugday Today!

Today we had a decently good run with the bug day, I only had time for one bug unfortanatly though. Others picked up the pace, and that made me smile quite a bit when I got home just now. I had to have Wisdom teeth removed, so I was downstate all day with no internet.

Today was a Hugday for Expirable bugs and we had 83 bugs hugged by 14 people, a big jump from the last two weeks! I have to think all the blogging is helping along with the IRC propaganda.

A bug hug to our triagers today:

charlie-tca
DavidFutcher (bobbo)
firefeather
Hew
JerzyMansarliński
Jouni Mettala
Lhademmor
MuhammadTakdir
Nglnx
nhandler
NickEllery
NickNak
sbarjola

See you all next week!

Happiness on CD

Wow, I’ve never been happier to be part of the Ubuntu Community. Yesterday I was with my friend and fixing her mom’s coworker’s computer, a story common to any computer person. Her 10 year old daughter was watching my every click.

I put in an Ubuntu Live CD and booted it up, and first thing she said was “Cool”.

At the end of my fixing, on my way to the door, I handed her the Live CD. She gave me a big hug and excitedly ran back to her mom and began telling her all about FOSS and Ubuntu as I let myself out. The next day I was back to finish my work and low and behold what did I find? Ubuntu with flash installed and more games than I could shake a stick at.

I still have the smile on my face.

First Patch Accepted

http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/rhythmbox/trunk/shell/rb-tray-icon.c?limit_changes=100&revision=5806&view=markup&pathrev=5806

It’s so simple and dumb… but I’m so happy. ^_^

~Dereck

UbuntuBugDay/20080703 -Hug Day

UbuntuBugDay/20080703 – Ubuntu Wiki

Well, The day is just about up for me, about half of the selected bugs were hugged today, and I suppose that isn’t too bad at all. Of 175 bugs bugs, there are only 71 bugs left unhugged. All of the bugs that were confirmed before the Hug Day got a hug, so that is pretty impressive. I think the smaller size had a something to do with that. Eight people contributed to the Hug Day today:

BryceHarrington
Chriscoulson
IulianUdrea
NickEllery
PedroVillavicencio
SergioBarjola
TormodVolden
and myself

I really enjoy how much that I was able to learn today; I learned about how the community works a bit more, learned about features that I didn’t know existed on my own computer, and became somewhat comfortable milling around the mailing lists, irc, wiki, and other places. Ubuntu mailing lists sure generate a *lot* of mail…  Tomarrow  it would be very wise of me to get the information I collected this week in my experiences out of my head and to the wiki where it will do some good for the next person to do this job.

In other news, I’m pretty happy to have joined the newly created Ubuntu-website@ so I might have a chance to do some work on the Ubuntu website directly or indirectly. I feel a bit intimidated to say anything when surrounded by so many smart people though. Hopefully I can make some contrabutions though and in the end be able to point to something on the frontpage of http://www.ubuntu.com and say that I helped make that.

Hug Day – July 3rd

LaunchPad ready, the Wiki full, target locked… Ubuntu Hug Day!

I can’t wait to kick off the Hug Day this week for Xorg, I feel like a real part of the Ubuntu Community now and can’t wait to help others get their feet wet bug hunting. I can’t believe how much I have learned about the comminiy and how things work in general this week, but I hardly feel like I’ve done anything at all.

With the Global Bug Jam coming up not to long from now, I’m hoping there will be a lot of new members in the bugsquad that will be coming in for the first time.

Oh, and don’t forget about the 5-a-day! Hug Day’s are to make-up for lost days.

See you in IRC~