Dublin, Ireland bug squashing party
Hi there. It's come to my attention that bug squashing parties are _the_ way to fix bugs. Not to be seen as uncool, I'm proposing a bug squashing party somewhere in Dublin, Ireland at a mutually agreed date and time. I'm just canvassing for support right now, as I don't know the Debian procedure for doing this - or even if there is one. One of the topics/issues/bugs I hope to address is getting my open source projects in SourceForge knocked into shape for acceptance into Debian. I don't know if that meets the criteria for party - maybe a shindig or a hootenanny. Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fe7fe98.1030...@philipashmore.com
Re: Dublin, Ireland bug squashing party
Hi Philip, On 25 June 2012 07:00, Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com wrote: Not to be seen as uncool, I'm proposing a bug squashing party somewhere in Dublin, Ireland at a mutually agreed date and time. I'm based in Dublin, Ireland, as are a handful of DDs. I don't think there has been an Irish BSP event before but there is always a first time for everything. It might be an idea to set up a page on the wiki [1] too when a date is decided. Jon [1] http://wiki.debian.org/BSP/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/calouzp1wdnw3eozbhgoq4i0v7eqx4rng8p5jeolbt4-xqu7...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Dublin, Ireland bug squashing party
Hi Phillip, On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com wrote: It's come to my attention that bug squashing parties are _the_ way to fix bugs. Not to be seen as uncool, I'm proposing a bug squashing party somewhere in Dublin, Ireland at a mutually agreed date and time. That is a great idea! There does not seem to be much local Debian activity, despite the number of DDs living here, and this is a good way to help revert that, and help the release! Have you thought of a place, or talked with anybody about that? I'm thinking the TOG might be a good place. I'm just canvassing for support right now, as I don't know the Debian procedure for doing this - or even if there is one. I'd participate and/or help organise. One of the topics/issues/bugs I hope to address is getting my open source projects in SourceForge knocked into shape for acceptance into Debian. I don't know if that meets the criteria for party - maybe a shindig or a hootenanny. I think BSPs usually focus on fixing problems for packages already in Debian, specially RC bugs. But nobody would discourage you from working on your packages and getting help from other people doing so! Tincho. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAL60Pd8Ln++oL5=d_J7uR32A0U3=wjnhdoonmqy9kqtzxnv...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Dublin, Ireland bug squashing party
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 07:00:56 +0100 Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com wrote: It's come to my attention that bug squashing parties are _the_ way to fix bugs. Not to be seen as uncool, I'm proposing a bug squashing party somewhere in Dublin, Ireland at a mutually agreed date and time. You could do an online poll to get an idea of dates, times are probably best thought of as the whole day / weekend. (Weekends will allow people to travel and are usually easier for locals too.) I've seen people using Doodle polls for this kind of thing before, with reasonable success. http://www.doodle.com/ Create a wiki page so that people can put their names down if they are able to attend and others can offer crash space / accommodation. If the date isn't arranged, link to the doodle poll but get the venue organised early so that people know where they need to be. Do you have a rough idea of when? Which month? (Note that a lot of Debian people will be in Nicaragua in early July - you could organise the BSP to be alongside DebConf, allowing for time zone differences, or do it afterwards and some of the people who went to DebConf might be able to attend the BSP too.) I'm just canvassing for support right now, as I don't know the Debian procedure for doing this - or even if there is one. The wiki page has already been mentioned in this thread, there's a HOWTO linked from that page. There's usually very good support for BSP's - lots of people want to go to a BSP, it's organising the venue that can be the harder part. One of the topics/issues/bugs I hope to address is getting my open source projects in SourceForge knocked into shape for acceptance into Debian. I don't know if that meets the criteria for party - maybe a shindig or a hootenanny. If people get together and work on Debian and fix bugs, it's a BSP. Have fun! -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpoiLw18Wwfs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Dublin, Ireland bug squashing party
Quoting Martín Ferrari (martin.ferr...@gmail.com): Have you thought of a place, or talked with anybody about that? I'm thinking the TOG might be a good place. Isn't there some random company over there that actually happens to employ several DDs (and might be responsible for the sudden increase in DD numbers in IE, over last years)and that could generously sponsor a Debian BSP? :-) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Dublin, Ireland bug squashing party
On 25/06/12 16:03, Martín Ferrari wrote: Hi Phillip, On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com wrote: It's come to my attention that bug squashing parties are _the_ way to fix bugs. Not to be seen as uncool, I'm proposing a bug squashing party somewhere in Dublin, Ireland at a mutually agreed date and time. That is a great idea! There does not seem to be much local Debian activity, despite the number of DDs living here, and this is a good way to help revert that, and help the release! Have you thought of a place, or talked with anybody about that? I'm thinking the TOG might be a good place. How many people can it accommodate? Are there fees? Network/WiFi? Food/drink? I'm just canvassing for support right now, as I don't know the Debian procedure for doing this - or even if there is one. I'd participate and/or help organise. Yes to both - it's my first BSP. One of the topics/issues/bugs I hope to address is getting my open source projects in SourceForge knocked into shape for acceptance into Debian. I don't know if that meets the criteria for party - maybe a shindig or a hootenanny. I think BSPs usually focus on fixing problems for packages already in Debian, specially RC bugs. But nobody would discourage you from working on your packages and getting help from other people doing so! Tincho. Philip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fe8e190.3060...@philipashmore.com
