+1 localization day but as a l10n.xwiki.org say in general (improve
the wiki itself too)

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:51 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Andreea,
>
>
> On 30 Jan 2014 at 10:46:56, Andreea Popescu 
> ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> First of all, congrats to everyone.
>>
>> It would be great if we have a "Testing day" and a "Localization day",
>> because, for example, in Romanian the localization is not really great.
>
> A Localization Improvement Day is a very good idea IMO :)
>
> I'm less thrilled by the testing day which for me is something that needs to 
> be done all the time anyway. Not sure what we would on that day that we don't 
> do normally. There's E) though (Code Coverage Day) which is close to this one 
> but in a more interesting way IMO since the tests we write stay and don't 
> need to be done again and again manually.
>
> Ok let's continue brainstorming on days and since we have a lot we'll then 
> decide which ones we want to do and when! :)
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>> Andreea
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:20 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> > Hi devs,
>> >
>> > We've done one year of BFD on the 5.x cycle and this has allowed us to
>> > reach a greater goal: one of having caught up with the number of open bugs.
>> > We've first succeeded in closing more bugs than there has been created bugs
>> > over a year, then over 2 years, then over 3 years, then over 4 years and
>> > we're very close to succeed for the last 1600 days (ie 4.4 years)! :)
>> >
>> > I'd like to congratulate everyone on this achievement which is really
>> > awesome. I don't know a lot of other projects who've had this kind of
>> > success so we can be proud of ourselves!
>> >
>> > Current result can be seen at:
>> > http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10352
>> >
>> > Note that there are still 357 opened bugs which were created since the
>> > beginning of the project.
>> >
>> > My feeling is that it's hard to keep the sustained pace we've set on the
>> > BFD days and I think we need a bit of fresh air.
>> >
>> > Also now that we've caught up with bugs I believe the most important part
>> > is to just try to contain the bug ratio so that we're about even in term of
>> > number of new bugs vs umber of bugs we close. If we can achieve this it
>> > would already be a very nice success.
>> >
>> > So what I'm proposing for the 6.x cycle is this:
>> > - one week out of 2 we continue doing a BFD
>> > - the other week we do a rolling XWiki Day on another activity
>> >
>> > Here's a list of other activities we could do (first mentioned in this
>> > thread: http://markmail.org/message/a5ew5ilbgxvf67lu ):
>> >
>> > A) Doc Fixing Day: improve xwiki.org
>> > B) Deprecation Fixing Day: reduce # of deprecated calls and move code to
>> > legacy
>> > C) Violation Fixing Dy: reduce # of violations. 12K right now on platform
>> > for ex (see
>> > http://sonar.xwiki.org/drilldown/issues/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform)
>> > D) Javadoc Improvement Day: Add missing javadocs in our code and remove
>> > checkstyle excludes
>> > E) Code Coverage Day: Add as many tests as possible (unit and functional)
>> > to increase the TPC
>> > F) 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 listed!
>> > G) Others you would consider interesting?
>> >
>> > The only constraint for defining a day is that it contains small elements
>> > that can be fixed quickly which is the case for the proposals listed above.
>> >
>> >
>> > So what I propose to be precise:
>> > - one week out of 2 we do a BFD
>> > - the other week we do one of each (A through F). Then once we've done a
>> > full round we decide which ones are the best for the project, which ones we
>> > want to drop and which ones we want to repeat more often than others.
>> >
>> > I also propose that the 6th and 13th we still do a BFD and on the 20th of
>> > Feb we start doing A, then BFD, then B, etc.
>> >
>> > WDYT? Any other proposal or better idea?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > -Vincent
>> >
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