Wishlist: Random Bug Viewer

[Zak B. Elep]

I brought this up at #ubuntu-motu a few hours ago. It was inspired by bddebian's BUGDAY.

It would be nice to have something like Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button, except that, instead of blurting out a random page, it blurts out a random bug. It would benefit both newbies and veterans because n00bs to Ubuntu development (like me ;) who might be overwhelmed with the variety of bugs that can be worked on, while veterans who are looking for a test of their skills can, well, be satisfied with only one click (in theory, of course ;).

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Hi Zak,

I don't think people randomly choose bugs to work on. All this eagerness to help could be better focused. For newbies, they could contact the BugSquad team and they'd love to give a list of all bugs that need attention. And veterans, well, veterans know where to look for scratches to itch. :)

Just my .2, thanks for your report.

[Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10)]

We could pick up something from the most-involved projects for a user and then put a link on their profile for a random bug, but don't know how useful this could be :)

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

Bugs are not fixed by random developers. Bug are chosen the developer that match a set of needed skills.