GLEP: 6 Title: Gentoo Linux monthly bug day Version: $Revision: 1.1 $ Last-Modified: $Date: 2003/07/03 05:38:42 $ Author: Brian Jackson , Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Content-Type: text/x-rst Created: 02-Jul-2003 Post-History: 02-Jul-2003 Credits ======= I stole this idea from liquidx who probably stole it from one of the many projects that do something similar. Abstract ======== Gentoo Linux should have one day a month that is devoted to clearing out bugs, and accepting new ebuilds from bugzilla. This one day a month should not replace a developers normal bug tracking duties. This "bug day" should become something that involves the user community to make them feel closer to the developers. Motivation ========== I believe this would help keep the number of bugs in bugzilla at a lower level. This would also be a good chance for some user submitted ebuilds to be commited that would normally go overlooked. I think this is a good idea. We could turn this into a big deal for the user community Specification ============= This doesn't require any coding. It just requires one day each month that little other than bug closing will happen. I would like to see all developers participate, but I know it's unlikely that we could get everybody free on the same day. Rationale ========= Gnome, KDE, and other open source projects do something similar with good success. Copyright ========= This document has been placed in the public domain.