Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 14:19:34 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How does one become a triager? Message-ID: <51c0f53e-27dd-b6b1-94ee-f358fa098458@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <N_M6HMzKN2ryTIfgTzMBAYDhH2L9n-0b8bhzlzafdbtD-pbGZZYk4eEc0kxZ-0nwBADZ8WjcFgvCRBvbb6DdOH6VkBka1JZAmER7gNMZgao=@protonmail.ch> References: <CBZ2bZeFelD-HWe7TXYiueZwJFonCGdM9nSGfTtqO-7fzrM2xp9LZGZMTj0SVNMlIbGw1ZBEfzcF9bgZJx54xUXnfyTSZwcBDzTRY1QoCBU=@protonmail.ch> <20181027210616.27bnrtit5bfusa2u@privacychain.ch> <N_M6HMzKN2ryTIfgTzMBAYDhH2L9n-0b8bhzlzafdbtD-pbGZZYk4eEc0kxZ-0nwBADZ8WjcFgvCRBvbb6DdOH6VkBka1JZAmER7gNMZgao=@protonmail.ch>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --F7DcVNmlAsGxDR9mUOFztBjYw70hhZjAf Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="376E2QDS5ff7aLQhCwBZMGk17IZNLXDwN"; protected-headers="v1" From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <51c0f53e-27dd-b6b1-94ee-f358fa098458@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: How does one become a triager? References: <CBZ2bZeFelD-HWe7TXYiueZwJFonCGdM9nSGfTtqO-7fzrM2xp9LZGZMTj0SVNMlIbGw1ZBEfzcF9bgZJx54xUXnfyTSZwcBDzTRY1QoCBU=@protonmail.ch> <20181027210616.27bnrtit5bfusa2u@privacychain.ch> <N_M6HMzKN2ryTIfgTzMBAYDhH2L9n-0b8bhzlzafdbtD-pbGZZYk4eEc0kxZ-0nwBADZ8WjcFgvCRBvbb6DdOH6VkBka1JZAmER7gNMZgao=@protonmail.ch> In-Reply-To: <N_M6HMzKN2ryTIfgTzMBAYDhH2L9n-0b8bhzlzafdbtD-pbGZZYk4eEc0kxZ-0nwBADZ8WjcFgvCRBvbb6DdOH6VkBka1JZAmER7gNMZgao=@protonmail.ch> --376E2QDS5ff7aLQhCwBZMGk17IZNLXDwN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 28/10/2018 08:54, Lorenzo Salvadore via freebsd-questions wrote: >>> Hello. >> >> Hi. >> >>> I saw on bugzilla that some users are FreeBSD triagers. If I understo= od >>> correctly, this means that they try to keep the bugs database clean a= nd >>> easy to use and they ensure that the right labels, keywords, tags etc= =2E are >>> in the right place. >>> However, I was unable to find anywhere how does one become a >>> triager: does this work like for committers as some sort of reward or= >>> is it on volunteer basis? >> >> I suppose you are talking about the Bugmeisters: >> >> https://www.freebsd.org/administration.html#t-bugmeister >> >> So, they are FreeBSD Developers with that task assigned to them. >> >>> Thank you. >>> Lorenzo Salvadore. >> >> Best Regards, >> Alexandre C. Guimar=C3=A3es. >=20 > Thank you very much, indeed I had not understand that the triagers > and the bugmeisters were the same thing. There's a bit of a misconception here: people aren't 'assigned' to bugmeister@ -- they volunteer. In fact, pretty much everything about FreeBSD development is done on a purely voluntary basis. Yes, there are a few people employed by the FreeBSD Foundation or by various vendors (to maintain drivers for certain hardware typically) who don't necessarily just work on what they fancy working on whenever they feel like it, but they are definitely in the minority. This means that many FreeBSD developers are doing the work only as their available free time allows. Consequently, there's always a backlog of "stuff that should be done" and a shortage of people stepping up to do it. Anyone wanting to become involved in the project will be welcomed gladly and if they show any consistent tendency to contribute over time, they will be punished with a commit bit, or (if their contributions are not so much in the area of writing code) possibly the relatively new project membership status. A lot of jobs get taken up by existing developers for the pretty simple reason that developers tend to go to devsummits where project needs are discussed, where many other developers get to know them and their interests and so they are quite likely to get the suggestion that this is a job they might like to do. In many cases, there's no intrinsic requirement for people to be committers in order to do a lot of jobs around the project, it's just that historically the project has been much better at recruiting developers than people with talents in other directions. So, for the OP, my advice is: talk to people, get to know and become known around the community. Contact the bugmeister@ team and ask about volunteering. Discuss with them how you might be able to help out, and then get stuck in. If you can afford it, go to FreeBSD conferences or other events where you can meet FreeBSD people face to face -- that makes a big difference. There are conferences spread around the world: since the OP is apparently in Switzerland, perhaps a visit to FOSDEM in Brussels next February, or EuroBSDCon which will be in Lillehammer, Norway next Septemb= er. 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