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[John Volk <poweruser32@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all OpenShot Developer,
   I would like to introduce myself to the team. My name is John Volk, I do
not know how to program but would like to help with the bug management of
OpenShot. I'm sorry for all the bug mail going to the whole team, but I'm
still trying to familiarize myself with the guidelines for triaging bugs.
>From what I can tell most of you are developers actually working on code,
but I think it is still crucial for you guys to know whats going on. Well
here are the things that Johnathan would liked worked on in terms of bugs.


>    - *Duplicates* - I still think we have lot of duplicate reports that
>    need to be consolidated.  The trick is to find the best bug report to link
>    all the duplicates to.
>    - *Remove* the "wishlist" tag.
>    - *MLT Related Crashes* - I would love to somehow separate all the MLT
>    related issues, including segmentation faults, flashes of white, video
>    decoding issues, etc...  Maybe we could use an "mlt" tag, or something
>    similar.  It is my belief that most of our bugs are related to MLT rather
>    than OpenShot, so once they have all been identified.... the next step is to
>    mark them as "invalid" or assign them to the "MLT" launchpad project
>    instead.  However, let's not pull the trigger on closing or moving these bug
>    reports quite yet.  But eventually, I would like them to disappear from our
>    bug list.
>    - *Incompletes* - Many reports just don't have enough info to reproduce
>    the issue, or they are just vague "something broke" reports.  I would love
>    to mark all of these bugs as "incomplete"
>
>
It is also very important that everyone is consistent when organizing bugs.
I am trying to follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage as best as
possible. I will summarize below.


   - *Wishlist - *When the importance is set to wishlist, set the
status to*Triaged
   *.
   - *Patch - *When ever you add a patch to a bug mark the attachment as a
   patch and add the patch tag. This is what the triage guide says to do, but I
   do not know if the tag is necessarily. Any thoughts? (I wouldn't mind
   deleting it)
   - *Importance - *The importance needs to always be set. The default is
   medium. see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance for more details.
   - *Confirmed - *The status should be set to confirmed when the bug is
   affecting more than one person. If you (not the bug reporter) can reproduce
   the bug it can also be marked as confirmed.
   - *Triaged - *The status should be set triaged when a bug can be
   confirmed and is ready to be worked on by a developer. see
   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Improving
   - *Incomplete - *Not enough information.

One thing that needs to be worked on is setting more bugs to triaged.
Yesterday there was only one or two bug triaged. The whole wishlist is
triaged now too.
This is what I am trying to follow, but if OpenShot already follows a
different system, please let me know. I am looking forward to working with
you all.

BTW During most of the summer starting tomorrow night, I will only be able
to be at a computer on Saturday nights.