Great input, Sarah! I love the idea. :-)
Couldn't we connect that to the 5 years of OpenLaszlo anniversary?
Saying: let's clear out some bugs and have a party?
Raju
On Aug 15, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Sarah Allen wrote:
Rails recently had a BugMash which was quite successful:
http://wiki.railsbridge.org/projects/1/wiki/BugMash
Here's how they did it:
- one person was committed to organizing the how tos and hanging in
the IRC channel
- a couple of core team members were committed to reviewing patches
- there were prizes and a point system
- there were a few people who organized physical locations with
pizza which created party atmosphere (this happened after the
decision to make the bug mash happen)
- a few people (like me) flaked out and didn't participate, but
enough other people were committed to participating so that was ok
It all happened in a single weekend, which (I think) really helped
the newbies since there were people on deck to mentor and ask
questions.
Perhaps there would be some companies in the community who be
interested in giving prizes. Rails also has *other* lists that are
separate from the dev list where such activities take place
(initially Rails Activism, more recently RailsBridge) which makes it
more welcoming for people outside the core team to participate in
activities that don't involve modifying the OpenLaszlo core code.
I'm not saying OpenLaszlo has to be just like Rails -- I think the
core team has a substantially different and more positive culture
(thank goodness!). However, there may be ideas to learn from other
open source projects. I would guess there are people on the forums
who might be willing to be more involved in spreading the word.
More successful than "official asks" would be personal invitation
from someone who is deeply involved. I'm super busy these next few
weeks, but if I had the time I would start with people who report
the most bugs and are most active on the forums and/or laszlo-user
and who are not vocal on this list.
Sarah
On Aug 15, 2009, at 5:27 AM, Raju Bitter wrote:
Amy, could you do a blog post asking for community support? Or at
least in the forums? Officially asking for support might be good.
What do you think?
On Aug 15, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Amy Muntz wrote:
Hi,
Yes - it would be extremely helpful if the community could help us
clean up JIRA bugs. Anything we can do to pare the list will help
us more easily identify the existing problems.
As for the bugs assigned to folks who don't work on the project
any longer, I will make a pass at those and set them to unassigned
so that they can be reviewed.
In terms of where to start, I think Unscheduled (1176 open) and
Future (313 open) are both good places to start. I'm happy to do
the JIRA work to close them out if folks either send comments like
Andre did or comment the bug itself.
Thanks,
Amy
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:03 AM , Raju Bitter wrote:
Good idea, André, I agree there are many stale issues, and the
question is if Amy couldn't start a request to the community to
do a bug cleanup session.
What will happen with all the bugs assigned to people who don't
work for the company any more, or don't work on the project any
more?
- Raju
On Aug 15, 2009, at 1:45 AM, André Bargull wrote:
There are many stale entries in our JIRA which can be closed,
for example these candidates:
1) http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-5465
2) http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-7080
3) http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-7143
1) "__LZapplyStyleMap" isn't used anymore, so why not close this
bug?
2) This is a "Won't Fix" or "Invalid", fiddling with the
prototype of built-in objects is not supported (the "intercept
mouse gesture"- idea can be filed as a separate entry, though)
3) Hmm, that one is not a bug, it's how JavaScript works..
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