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Title: Gentoo Linux monthly bug day
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Version: $Revision: 1.3 $
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Last-Modified: $Date: 2003/07/28 18:40:18 $
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Author: Brian Jackson <iggy@gentoo.org>
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Status: Final
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Type: Standards Track
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Content-Type: text/x-rst
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Created: 02-Jul-2003
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Post-History: 09-Jul-2003, 28-Jul-2003
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Credits
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I stole this idea from liquidx who probably stole it from one of the many
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projects that do something similar.
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Abstract
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Gentoo Linux should have one day a month that is devoted to clearing out bugs,
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and accepting new ebuilds from bugzilla. This one day a month should not
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replace a developers normal bug tracking duties. This "bug day" should become
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something that involves the user community to make them feel closer to the
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developers.
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Motivation
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I believe this would help keep the number of bugs in bugzilla at a lower level.
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This would also be a good chance for some user submitted ebuilds to be commited
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that would normally go overlooked. I think this is a good idea. We could turn
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this into a big deal for the user community
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Specification
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This doesn't require any coding. It just requires one day each month that
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little other than bug closing will happen. I would like to see all developers
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participate, but I know it's unlikely that we could get everybody free on the
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same day. The majority of the people that have had an opinion have
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suggested a weekend day. We will have bugday's on a Saturday. Gentoo
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developers can try to get some of the users to help them out. A prize to
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the most succesful developer was suggested. This is an idea to keep in
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mind for the future. I guess I'm going to be the one coordinating this
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until I get help, but when I do get help in coordinating this we can
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coordinate via irc if all parties are capable, or email if not. I will
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send out a notice telling the details at least one week in advance to the
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-dev, -core, and -user mailing lists.
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Rationale
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Gnome [1]_ , Mozilla, Zope [2]_ , and other open source projects do something similar with good
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success.
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References
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.. [1] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/bugsquad/triage/faq.html#II
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.. [2] http://dev.zope.org/CVS/BugDays
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Copyright
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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