Bug day Thu Dec 29th, 2005

["Christian Kirbach" <Christian Kirbach student uni-siegen de>]

Hi there!

After too many months of abstinence, the Gnome Bugsquad team will run one
of their famous Bug days.

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 Date:  Thursday, December 29th, 2005.
 Time:  1500-0300 UTC (10AM-10PM EST, 1600-0400 CET)
 Where: In IRC: irc.gnome.org
        channel: #bugs  is where all the good action will occur
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I'd appreciate if people drop by to assist newbies or even volunteer as  
"bug day
deputies" (mail me). I'll be in IRC for many hours, if nothing crosses my  
plans.

You will have the honour and opportunity to give our brand-new bugzilla
bug tracking system a spin. Olav and Elijah have done some remarkable work.
Bug hunting has never been so easy and efficiently before!

If you have suggestions for bug reports that are suitable for triage  
beginners,
or for the bug day, please let me know or put them in the Wiki after  
discussing
them in IRC.


What exactly is a 'bug day'?
======================================

Bug day is a day when we get together on IRC, scrutinise bug reports, and  
clean
bugzilla so that developers can get more work done by focusing on bugs that
matter instead of dealing with duplicates, unconfirmable bugs, and things  
that
they've already closed.

Who can help at a bug day?
==========================

Virtually anyone. Bug day can be for the very timid, the
very quiet, or the very persistent.

You do need:
* a user-level knowledge of GNOME
* a rather recent version of GNOME (jhbuild etc. are _not_ required)
* 30 or so minutes of the day (the first time, after that you can do it
  in very small chunks.)

You *don't* need:
* any programming ability
* any prior experience with QA
* a deep understanding of GNOME.

On the other hand, if you do have programming ability, it's also a great
way to get involved- after a few bug days, you can figure out quickly what
needs help in Gnome and apply your talents there.

What will we focus on?
======================

More topics will be announced on http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/BugDays
within the next days. We intend to compile lists of triage candidates that
are suitable for beginners.

In general, unconfirmed bugs - reading them, marking
them NEEDINFO if needed, confirming them if they are still reproducable
or present in a newer release, finding duplicates, etc. Easy and fun, you  
can
interrupt and continue at any time.

Where can I get more information?
=================================

Bug days have a wiki page now:
http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/BugDays


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