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Based in Ger­many, Max is a mechan­i­cal engi­neer in the auto­mo­tive indus­try work­ing on elec­tric dri­ve sys­tems for vehi­cles. In his work life Catia seats are more the norm but Max was inter­est­ed in alter­na­tives he could use at home to fuel his pas­sion for 3D print­ing. Of course this led Max to FreeCAD. Max has some love­ly per­son­al projects he has cre­at­ed using FreeCAD which you can check out over on Max’s Print­a­bles Page.

Hav­ing got to grips with using FreeCAD, excel­lent­ly Max became inter­est­ed in con­tribut­ing to the project. Max taught him­self, with help from the com­mu­ni­ty, to build FreeCAD and began to con­tribute sim­ple fix­es to doc­u­men­ta­tion and tool tips and more.

When the FPA announced the grant allo­ca­tion for the bug triage role Max was the suc­cess­ful appli­cant and he has now com­plet­ed his first month deliv­er­ing this work. As a recap the role is cen­tred around man­ag­ing the GitHub FreeCAD bug track­er . The role places empha­sis on var­i­ous relat­ed activ­i­ties such as, check­ing new bug sub­mis­sions for rel­e­vance and/or dupli­ca­tion. Anoth­er task is to rephrase issues raised to make them address­able points so that required action is clear­ly iden­ti­fi­able. Max also acts as a facil­i­ta­tor between issue authors, seek­ing clar­i­fi­ca­tions and fur­ther infor­ma­tion, to feed to the rel­e­vant main­tain­ers and developers.

As part of his first month of activ­i­ties Max has now pro­duced his first report avail­able to view here. The report begins with some con­text and some sta­tis­tics for the month. It’s a real­ly easy straight­for­ward read and obvi­ous to see the qual­i­ty work Max has done.

It’s great to see that in this first month every new issue has been checked for qual­i­ty and clas­si­fied, a valu­able first step in the jour­ney to issues get­ting fixed and closed. Beyond this Max pro­vides a list of man­u­al­ly closed issues this month with one line descrip­tors of the rea­son for clos­ing, many are closed as a dupli­ca­tion, some are unre­spon­sive but many are fixed or implemented.

Max clos­es out the report with planned activ­i­ty in the com­ing months. Max plans to deep dive into the pile of old­er issues most­ly import­ed from the old­er bug track­er sys­tem. Max also will con­tin­ue to man­age the FreeCAD Com­plaints Day project board assess­ing and inte­grat­ing the issues raised in that ses­sion into the system.

As part of the work Max is also keep­ing an eye on most of the dif­fer­ent FreeCAD com­mu­ni­ty areas, the offi­cial forum, dis­cord, Red­dit etc. On the FreeCAD forum Max is @Maxwxyz.