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

[Nuritzi Sanchez <nuritzis stanfordalumni org>]

Agreed, I really like this idea, Alexandre! 

It's almost October... how can we support this effort. The things Bastian and Allan brought up are important: 

1. Wiki page with the details
   
   
2. Selecting one date for a global bug squashing day. Then, we can select a week to try to do local meetings. 
   
   
3. Mentors! We need them. Can we add basics on the wiki page for how to triage bugs? This is the part that seems most chalenging. I think we may need more than a couple of days to do this right. 
   
   
4. Marketing. It'd be great to get some images to post on social media and elsewhere. We also might consider: 
   
   - news post
   - email to foundation-announce, engagement, and developer lists
   - social media

Alexandre, you should come to the engagement team meeting this Friday at 17:00 UTC! Will you be leading this project? 

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 2:22 AM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:

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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