Posted by wolfger on March 31, 2008
I got hassled yesterday by a friend of mine for not blogging anything for two entire weeks. Two weeks? How is that possible? And yet, it’s true. I didn’t even post for Photo Friday. I am such a slacker. In my defense, life’s been busy. Two weekends ago I spent an entire day at the Detroit Institute of Arts. One weekend ago I spent an entire day at the Detroit Zoo. This past weekend I spent an entire day at the Detroit Science Center. This coming weekend I will spend an entire day at Clancy Day. Some of the other things I’ve packed into my time: movies (the director’s cut of Alexander is nearly 3 hours long), Red Wings (won, 1-0 in overtime), 5-a-day (had to do a couple 10-a-day days too try to make up for lost time), moving furniture, and spending quality time with a good friend. And probably other things I can’t recall.
Things I need to do still:
Get my “Basic Bug Triage for Ubuntu” presentation for Penguicon done (or at least sketched out)
Update the MeMaker package for Ubuntu (because I was holding off for an update on Good Friday, and when I finally got the update I procrastinated a little bit, and never had the time again thereafter).
Go over the Penguicon schedule and figure out how I’m going to pack everything I want to do into 3 short days.
Post some photos from the zoo trip.
Return to a life of blogging. Because teh internets need more of me. B-)
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Posted by wolfger on March 14, 2008
I’m usually to busy living the good life to photograph it, but I have a picture here of a tent full of happy, wet, drunk SCAdians from about 12 years ago that will always be remembered as one of the best weeks of my life. Sorry the pic is so small and low-quality.
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Posted by wolfger on March 8, 2008
Despite my previous stated distaste for canned responses, they are very useful (and I admitted that last time). So I’m considering adding one to the wiki. In the past few days I’ve seen a number of bugs that were set to “Incomplete” for no comprehensible reason. No questions asked, no data requested. I even saw a bug marked incomplete from the start, apparently by the person filing the bug. The problem is, nobody who wants to fix bugs is looking at incomplete bugs. They’re looking at “New” and “Confirmed”. Setting it as “Incomplete” means we are waiting on more info before we can do anything useful, and so the people who do useful* things don’t often look at incomplete bugs. I’ve seen the problem so much, that I’ve been copying and pasting one response over and over again:
Not seeing why this bug was marked “incomplete”. You should only set “incomplete” if:
-you have to ask the reporter questions
-you ask the submitter to provide any necessary information in a comment
I am marking it “new” again in the hopes somebody will pay attention to it.
Opinions are welcome. Particularly by my fellow triagers.
P.S. The Michigan LoCo is kicking butt in the 5-a-day stats, with at least 3 of us in the top 15. Way to go, guys!
*this isn’t to say triage isn’t useful… it’s just not as useful as troubleshooting/patching bugs.
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Posted by wolfger on March 5, 2008
I’d meant to say it early, but… well, you know.
Anyhow, if you’ve been meaning to buy tickets to tonights Grand Rapids Griffins game, featuring Darren McCarty, you’re in luck. The team is celebrating your procrastination by letting you in for free. Just, you know, don’t show up on time or anything. 
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