Evolution bug days will be starting back up this Thursday, 10/03 in irc.gnome.org #evolution. 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 is still big. Too big. As we are closer to version 1.2, we need to test which 1.0.x reports are still valid, and which bugs have been squashed along the road. Let's say: we have now around 26,000 reports, and of those around 2,600 are still alive. Keeping a fast pace of 10 minutes only to test/reproduce them that would mean 430 hours (almost 2 months!) just to see if they are valid reports. And among them there are some that definitely take longer than 10 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 October 3rd 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
