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 <allanp...@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 <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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > engagement-list mailing list > engagement-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list > > -- ............................................................ ................. *Nuritzi Sanchez* | +1.650.218.7388 | Endless <http://endlessm.com/>
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