Working for Canonical
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It's the beginning of my second week at Canonical.
The first week was absolutely hectic. Like many Canonical employees, I work from home, so my first contact with people was over IRC. Everyone was super friendly and I got to see a couple of familiar names to boot. But it was soon apparent that I would be doomed.
You see, I'm the new Quality Controller at Ubuntu. And we have a growing number of bugs to triage every day. With a release candidate coming out soon, this leaves little time for us to fix the multitude of bugs.
Doomed!
That is, until I heard about the BugSquad. These guys are great, they've been hunting down bugs left and right all week long. But it still looks like a losing battle. I quit working on Saturday with 1180 bugs, and we're now back to 1217. Oof.
I'll let Daniel announce it officially, but we'll be holding another Hug Day on Wednesday. This week, we'll be concentrating on crasher bugs: segmentation faults, assertion failures, if something just gives up and dies, we're going to triage it.
Don't worry if you're not a programmer! We need your help. You can learn how to sort out bugs, look for duplicates, and ask for more information. And if you are a programmer, maybe I can teach you a few tricks to find memory faults.
Wow. This release is going to be an exciting ride!