Re: Reviving bug days

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 09:07 +0200, Christian Kirbach wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 23.06.2005, 23:37 +0200 schrieb Vincent Untz:
> 
> > indeed very time consuming if only one person has to organize them. But
> > there are more than one guy in the bugsquad who can do it.
> What are the organiser's tasks? Maybe you want to put a few notes on our 
> workspace on the Wiki about that.

Choose a time, advertise it (bugsquad, gnome-love, gnome-list,
footnotes, other?). If it's a targetted bug day, make sure you've got
something that people can work through, eg. a tinyurl of bugs that need
working on. Make sure you or other people are around on IRC to help
newbies with getting involved. At least one person on IRC has privileges
to create new bugsquadders (ie. can grant users editbugs and canconfirm)
- this is something that bit us badly a couple of years back when it
stopped being a Luis-only thing. He was on holiday :)

It's the being-on-irc bit which takes time.

Someone feel free to expand and wikify that if they want :)

> > I've been also wondering if the new bug days could be better if they'd
> > be task-oriented. For example, triage all the bugs of an application,
> > triage all the GNOME 2.6 bugs, close as much old NEEDINFO bugs as
> > possible, etc.
> This "round robin" approach is probably the best idea so that some of
> the mentioned categories will not become neglected.
> We should also adopt to circumstances like an upcoming release of a 
> new GNOME series and concentrate e.g. on beta release/RC bugs etc.

Definitely. That's what we've done in the past.

-- 
Andrew