[06:29] <dholbach> good morning
[06:30] <geser> good morning
[09:02] <A117> could anyone review my ppa please?
[16:30] <mfisch> Laney: So to re-state the question, now that I'm a MOTU I'm actually having trouble finding stuff to work on and was interested how you guys find places to help
[16:31] <Laney> weeeeeeeell
[16:31] <mfisch> Sponsor queue?
[16:31] <Laney> last week doko did an archive rebuild test and there are a ton of build failures: http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20130614-saucy.html
[16:31] <Laney> (two weeks ago)
[16:31] <mfisch> Laney: I actually went through that and picked some random ones to look at
[16:31] <Laney> sponsoring is worthwhile too (get dholbach to put you in the patch pilot rotation)
[16:31] <Laney> ajmitch: here? http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/bugs/rcbugs/ is 500ing
[16:32] <mfisch> Laney: You need to find the right build failures, odd Haskell test case failures are not my forte
[16:32] <Laney> if it weren't then that would be an interesting page
[16:32] <mfisch> Laney: if you are not a patch pilot can you still help?
[16:32] <Laney> yeah, you can always sponsor whenever
[16:32] <Laney> I just find that piloting gives me a defined slot to sit down and go at it
[16:33] <mfisch> Laney: I looked at the sponsor queue but most already had at least a comment by someone
[16:33] <mfisch> Laney: is it fair game just to grab one?
[16:34] <Laney> yes, unless someone else is working on it
[16:34] <Laney> you can assign it to yourself to make that clear
[16:34] <mfisch> Laney: perfect
[16:34] <Laney> another thing to work on might be seeing why stuff is stuck in saucy-proposed: http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/update_excuses.html http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/update_output.txt (quite confusing at first, no doubt)
[16:34] <mfisch> Laney: for ftbfs, I usually look at the list and pick out something that I at least know what it is before starting to examine it
[16:35] <Laney> sounds like a fair way to keep interest
[16:35] <Laney> you might also figure out how to fix a class of error and then look for failures in that class
[16:35] <Laney> this rebuild might have certain problems induced by gcc-4.8 for example
[16:36] <mfisch> or else I end up with something that was an ancient Ada compiler that was one I looked at
[16:36] <Laney> there's a /lot/ of stuff in universe
[16:36] <Laney> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/arb/+bug/1194864 might be an easy one to sponsor
[16:37] <Laney> don't forget -v when building the source package :-)
[16:37] <mfisch> Laney: what bug tags are you looking for there?
[16:37] <Laney> I just looked at http://reqorts.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sponsoring/
[16:38] <Laney> towards the end since at a rough approximation being older implies that the request is hard for some reason
[16:38] <mfisch> Laney: yep
[16:38] <mfisch> Laney: most of those were non-universe last time I looked and I was worried about duplicate work, but I'll use this as a future resource
[16:39] <Laney> no harm pinging the person that commented
[16:39] <mfisch> Laney: I'm also doing some new packages but sending direct to Debian instead via a DD
[16:39] <Laney> yay
[16:39] <mfisch> My timezone kills me for pinging, by the time I have free time it's like 1am uk time, so East coast and europe are asleep :(
[16:39] <mfisch> I guess email still works these days
[16:40] <Laney> quite a good idea to have an IRC bouncer or similar
[16:40] <Laney> then you don't have to be /there/ for people to reply to you
[16:40] <mfisch> Laney: true, and I do have a BIP server
[16:43] <mfisch> Laney: thanks for the ideas
[16:43] <mfisch> Laney: there's also looking at bugs with patches and building debs/debdiffs
[16:43] <Laney> oh yeah, there used to be the ubuntu-review (or something) team but it kind of went away
[16:44] <Laney> there's a script which subscribes them to bugs with patches
[16:46] <mfisch> I think there's still tags you can search on
[16:47] <Laney> https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-reviewers/+patches
[16:48] <Laney> obscure launchpad page HOOOOOOOOO