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

[Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Nuritzi Sanchez
<nuritzis stanfordalumni org> wrote:
> Agreed, I really like this idea, Alexandre!

Ok. I admit my original email was a bit terse but it was mostly to see
if there was buy in first, and it seems there is!


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

Yep. I've taken notes, as well as from the discussion I had with
Bastian on IRC. I have some homework to do to expand on what the
initiative entails.


> Wiki page with the details

I started it at https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/BugSquashMonth (no
specific month in the URL so that we can reuse it at any other time).
It's still a stub, but I'll keep working on it (and of course
contributions from others are more than welcome).


> Selecting one date for a global bug squashing day. Then, we can select a
> week to try to do local meetings.

I'd aim for several (non-consecutive) days, say 4, so that:

 * people that can't make it to one event can attend another one
 * people who attended one then tried to triage bugs and encountered
difficulties have an opportunity to get further training
 * we see results, as one session is a bit too little to have a real
impact in my opinion


> 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.

There's https://wiki.gnome.org/Bugsquad that can be used as a starting
point, but as Allan pointed out this needs to be revived.

FWIW I'll be on the mentor side, but of course I can't be the only one
and I'll try to get other experimented triagers to participate.


> 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

I'll leave this part to your expertise. :-)


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

I have indeed planned to attend and to lead the project. Talk to you
during the meeting!


-- 
Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director