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[Brendan Donegan <brendan.donegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/06/11 14:27, Roth Robert wrote:
>     Hi,
>
>     My name is Brendan Donegan and I've been a member of the Ubuntu Bug
>     Squad for just a week or so, but have been triaging bugs in Ubuntu and
>     other projects since I began working for Canonical. I have been a
>     regular participant in Bug Days for the past month and have
>     contributed
>     as much as possible in the time I have.
>
> Hi Brendan,
> I'm happy to see your application here, I saw your name very often 
> recently, in Bug Days, Five a Day reports and various bug reports too.
>
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/786505
>
>     Confirmed the bug and requested the Importance be set to Medium as
>     a 'usability issue affecting a core application
>
> Seems OK to me.
>
>
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/evolution/+bug/500913
>
>     Confirmed this bug as still occuring in Natty and located and
>     linked the upstream bug report in Gnome Bugzilla
>
>
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/537831
>
>     Added a comment giving some extra details about behavior in Natty
>     and created and linked the upstream bug report in Gnome Bugzilla
>
> You forgot to mention the importance you suggest and why for the two 
> bugs above. I see that it's already set in the bug and seems to be 
> obvious, but we would like to see what's your opinion, what should the 
> importance be and why, to see that you really do understand what you 
> have read on the wiki from the Importance page.
In this case these bugs had Importance set before I saw them. It 
happened I didn't disagree with the already set Importance.
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/754128
>
>     Confirmed, asked for priority to be set to Medium and linked to
>     the upstream bug report in Gnome Bugzilla.
>
> You haven't specified the reason, why it should be Medium (it should 
> be Medium indeed, and I saw in the comments that you've discussed this 
> with hgddh2 on IRC, but other people can not decide where did you get 
> this from)
You're correct. I had mentioned the reason to hggdh on IRC but should 
have put this in a comment or this application. Thanks for pointing that 
out!
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/793291
>
>     Confirmed, requested the Importance be set to Low as the problem
>     is an extreme corner case and upstreamed the bug to Compiz bug
>     tracker. Also did some investigation to provide a more accurate
>     description of the problem.
>
> You have specified the reasons why this should be Low in the comments, 
> but maybe that reasoning should also be part of this application.
Perhaps I could have been clearer, but I think I did mention in the 
above comment that it should be Low importance because it only happens 
in a very contrived scenario (corner case)
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/799077
>
>     Confirmed, then raised (and linked) an upstream bug in Gnome
>     Bugzilla and asked for the bug to be set to Low importance, as it
>     is a cosmetic issue that doesn't affect functionality or usability
>     of Unity.
>
> I personally wouldn't have upstreamed this one, as this is a Unity 
> issue, Gnome Shell doesn't have this as Nautilus doesn't draw the 
> desktop in GS. Other than that, I agree with the Importance and the 
> status.
I thought Unity could not instruct Nautilus not to display the drive 
icon, so some change would need to be made in Nautilus. If that's the 
case then the Nautilus developers need to know.
> Thank you for your application, I would like to see you in the Bug 
> Control Team, I think you would be a valuable member of the team.
>
> Robert
Thanks for reviewing my application!