On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 27, 2012, at 9:12 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > >> On 04/27/2012 07:03 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> We've had several special days in the past: >>> >>> * Deprecation day >>> ** 26 April 2012: http://markmail.org/thread/c5oytyvgw6fcimqq >>> >>> * Bug fixing days: >>> ** 11 june 2008: http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/oyfxis3umqrvutxm >>> ** 18 June 2008: http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/brfx6gme37vgr3m5 >>> ** 25 Jun 2008: http://markmail.org/message/nrobo3x4ppgssklk >>> ** July 2008: http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/mn5veblndbtgcsm5 >>> ** 10 Feb 2011: http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/rierrb2wk72dkpqy and >>> result http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/BugFixingDayFebruary2011 >> >> Also: >> http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=keywords+~+bugfixingday+AND+updatedDate+%3E+%222011%2F03%2F16%22+ORDER+BY+assignee+ASC >> >>> * DocHour days: >>> ** 5 March 2008: http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/dyypju5dn23wkwr2 >>> >>> I think it's a good concept and I'd like to propose that we regularly (once >>> every month?) have an XWiki Day. >>> >>> Ideas for such days: >>> >>> * Bug fixing day: Reduce bug count >>> * Doc day: improve xwiki.org >>> * Deprecation day: reduce # of deprecated calls. Around 1700: >>> http://nemo.sonarsource.org/drilldown/violations/XWIKI?&rule=squid%3ACallToDeprecatedMethod&rule_sev=MINOR >>> * Violation day: reduce # of violations. 10274 right now: >>> http://nemo.sonarsource.org/drilldown/violations/XWIKI >>> * Javadoc Day: Add missing javadocs in our code and remove checkstyle >>> excludes >>> * Code Coverage Day: Add as many tests as possible (unit and functional) >>> * Broken Links Day: fix as many broken links as possible on xwiki.org. To >>> find them is easy: we just need to enable the IRC Link Checker botlet and >>> wait on IRC to get them! >>> >>> I propose that whenever a day is over, we send a mail with the Date and >>> Topic for the next day and it has to be about 1 month from the date of the >>> mail. >>> >>> To get this started I volunteer to be responsible for sending Day emails >>> for now, unless someone else is interested to do this. >>> >>> WDYT? >> >> +1, although I've had mixed results with this kind of events. I stopped >> proposing bugfixing days after I got almost no participation the last time. > > Yes it works only if enough people participate. We could decide that we do a > "Day" only if we have at least 4 participants for example. When we send the > email to propose the next day, people who wants to participate reply and we > send a reminder the day before for example.
Maybe if we have an event every month on about the same dates people will not forget about it and participate more. When you have something out of the blue you can forget about it if it's announced too early or don't see if if you don't look in details the mails you received from the mailing list the day of the event. > > For the 1st Deprecation Fixing Day we got 5 participants which was good. I > was expecting 1 or 2 more but 5 was a nice score. > > Thanks > -Vincent > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
