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[Kate Stewart <kate.stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 07:51 -0700, Brian Murray wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 05:40:23PM -0500, Kate Stewart wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, 
> >    I was working through the bugs pulling together the agenda for this
> > week, and noticed a significant number of the A2 ISO testing bugs
> > haven't been looked at yet.  For instance, state New has 9 (out of 69).
> > Also there are some with importance that hasn't been set
> > ( importance=undefined 12/39).
> > http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/report
> > 
> >    To get the bugs to the attention of developers, they generally need
> > to be confirmed (ideally triaged), and have the importance set.
> > To find the release critical ones early (generally high/critical and
> > milestoned by an analyst or developer to the release), maximizes our
> > chances of getting them fixed. 
> > 
> >    Given these are bugs found during testing of the A2 iso images,
> > mostly from the mandatory tests, I tend to give them a higher bit of
> > focus, since they're likely to reoccur in A3 testing if nothing is
> > done.   
> > 
> >    Where some help is needed, is that there seems to be a gap between
> > the bugs being reported, and a scrub to get them all with accurate
> > importance set and figured out if real or not.   Note, this is just
> > specifically for the ones found during iso testing.   
> > 
> >    Now not all of these bugs are in each of your teams, but some of them
> > are in packages your team cares about.  For those packages that your
> > team cares about,  does it make sense for each of the analysts to take a
> > pass at the bugs, and make sure the state and importance are accurate?
> 
> Yes, to the best of our abilities.
> 
> I had deliberately left http://launchpad.net/bugs/806453 in a New state
> because I am not in a position to recreate the issue and thus Confirm
> it.  I did however set an Importance, bring it up with my team and get
> it sorted though.

Thanks Brian.  :)

Appreciate it.

Kate