In #bugs or in #evobugs as it has been in the past?? Skadz
On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 13:44, Gerardo Marin wrote: > Bugday strikes back! > > Evolution bug days will be starting back up this Thursday, 06/06 in > irc.gnome.org #bugs. For those of you who are new, and don't know quite > what bug day is, or how you can help out, read on... > > Evolution has been and will always be based upon community > participation, be either by coding, patching, submitting ideas or bug > reports. > Evolution has grown up into a great product, with lots of features and > functionality. But also the bug database has grown. Too much, and near > the limits of manageability. > Let's say: we have now around 22,000 reports, and of those around 2,300 > are still alive. Keeping a fast pace of 5 minutes only to triage them > that would mean 191 hours (almost a full month!) just for a proper > triaging & reassigning. And among them there are some that definitely > take longer than 5 minutes. > Add about 30 new reports every day, that have to be triaged... well, you > get the picture. > There are a lot of other tasks necessary for a healthy growth of > Evolution: Testing of new features in HEAD versions, searching for > memory leaks, closing reports when something is reported solved... a > whole bunch of activities that sometimes are slightly overlooked because > of the amount of bugs to be tracked. > We are calling the community- especially those who aren't coding wizards > but are looking to help some other way- to help us by looking into our > bugzilla and helping us to clean up the bug database to help developers > to look into what is really important and not waste time into duplicate > reports, very old code, unusable stack traces or plain crackpot feature > requests. > You don't need to be a 311337 coder to do this. If you are pretty sure > you have a good dose of common sense then you really don't need a deep > programming language skills to help. Just a few spare minutes and good > will are sufficient. > If you are interested in participating, we'll give you a few bug > reports to check on and, in that way, in just a few minutes a day, you > can help Evo get better by identifying bugs that are still there and > cleaning up the database to make it more usable to developers. > If you're interested, please drop by #bugs in irc.gnome.org between 9AM > and 9PM EST [1400 and 0200GMT] on June 6th and help make Evo even > better, by enforcing its quality, gaining knowledge of Evolution and > giving developers more time to code. > > > Thank you all! > > > Gerardo Marin > Ximian Evolution Bugmaster. > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
