Re: Reviving bug days

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 6/23/05, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> It's been a long time since the last bug day. It's probably time to
> revive them :-)
> 
> AFAIK, bug days did not happen anymore because of lack of time. It's
> 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.
> 
> I propose that each we list all the people who agree to run bug days and
> we'll have a kind of "organize the bug day" token that will be used to
> know who will organize the bug day. Of course, everybody will be welcome
> to help :-)

Hrm. I might be able to take the token for two weeks from today.

> 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.

We have done that at times in the past, and it was generally quite
successful- I definitely recommend it as a strategy for any future bug
days. [I think it was originally andrew or elijah's idea.]

Luis