Re: New initiative proposal: October is the month we squash bugs

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

I absolutely love the idea of trying to get new people involved in bug triage. We really miss having an active Bug Squad, and it's a great way to get involved in the project. October seems as good a time as ever to do it (perhaps it could happen at other times also, depending on how successful it is).

I suppose the main thing we'll need are mentors available for newcomers. When I started triaging bugs I remember that Tobi kept a watchful eye over me in the beginning. :)

It would also be great to update the Bugsquad pages [1] to reflect the current state of things, or perhaps just set up a new triage guide elsewhere...

Allan

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Bugsquad

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org> wrote:

Hi,

I've been meaning to push this for a while, but now seems to be the right time.

# Why October?

First of all because I thought it would be appropriate to *squash*
things on halloween season. Apart from it making me giggle, I see a
marketing opportunity here. [0]

But more importantly the fact that it's right after the release
actually makes it a good time to test stuff. With a fresh version out
the door it's the best moment to check if old bug reports are still
relevant, and doing it at the beginning of a development cycle ensures
maintainers get a clearer picture of what needs to be done.


# What is it?

A two part event with the goal of cleaning up our bug tracker.

## Online

The GNOME community tries to focus on bug triaging for a month. We can
organize several sessions at specific time and dates to do it together
for a few hours, but we can also do it individually on our own time.

Of course we welcome newcomers and help them get involved.

## In real life

We organize gatherings or workshops (known as bug squashing parties)
where local free software community members are taught how to triage
bugs.


# Feedback welcome

What do you people say? Do you think we should do it?


[0] So who's gonna draw us a pumpkin GNOME foot? :-)

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Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director
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