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 <afra...@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? :-) > > -- > Alexandre Franke > GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director > _______________________________________________ > engagement-list mailing list > engagement-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list >
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