Lesson on R's Bug Tracking Process

This lesson introduces the bug tracking process used by the R project. It is intended for people that are completely new to this topic, to help them understand ways in which they can contribute. Although it is aimed at R users, it may be of interest to potential contributors to other software projects that use Bugzilla.

The lesson was originally delivered as two Collaboration Campfire sessions. We hope that this material will be helpful for people that would like to run a similar session in future, or potential contributors that would like to go through the material themselves.

Acknowledgements

This lesson uses the website template from The Carpentries Workbench, which is Copyright © [Software Carpentry][swc-site] under a [CC BY 4.0][cc-by-human] license. We have made changes to reflect that this is a R Contribution Working Group project, rather than a Carpentries project.

The Collaboration Campfires were organized as part of the project Building Community around the R Development Guide, lead by Saranjeet Kaur and Heather Turner, which was supported by the Digital Infrastructure Incubator at Code for Science & Society (CS&S). The project benefited from the input of community champions from groups such as R-Ladies and members of the R Contribution Working Group.

The first draft of this lesson was developed on the Hack Day as part of Collaborations Workshop 2022.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Saranjeet Kaur 🖋

Achintya Rao 👀 💻 🖋

Heather Turner 🖋 📆

Zhian N. Kamvar 💻

Aman Goel 🖋

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!