Hi all,
I'm sending out a last call to fill out the Doodle poll for Bug
Squashing Day at http://doodle.com/2dx9h3cccwbp84v4. I plan to close the
poll at the end of the day tomorrow. As of now, it looks like Monday,
August 25 to Wednesday, August 27 are the best dates.
Thanks!
Kathy
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
kluss...@masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
On 8/1/2014 11:08 AM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
Hi all,
Unfortunately, it looks like I mistakenly added July dates to the poll
instead of some of the August dates we were polling. I usually can
edit a Doodle poll to fix these mistakes, but Doodle just isn't
cooperating with me on this poll.
Therefore, I had to create a new poll for bug squashing day. The poll
is available at http://doodle.com/2dx9h3cccwbp84v4. Anyone who filled
out the first poll will need to enter their dates again on the new poll.
Sorry!
Kathy
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
kluss...@masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
On 7/29/2014 1:45 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
Hi all,
Based on the discussion at yesterday's developers meeting, I'm
putting out a poll to find out when people would be available for the
Bug Squashing Day. To give us plenty of time to get ready, I'm
targeting the final two weeks of August, but I have excluded days
when we have previously-scheduled Evergreen meetings (EOB and web
team.) The poll is available at http://doodle.com/6ush6hyx9pa39pv3.
Once again, this day is not just for developers. We're looking at
setting up sandboxes to make it easier for people to make it easier
to test bug fixes. If you think you might be interested in testing
patches or in helping to confirm bugs, please take time to fill out
the Doodle poll.
Thanks all! I think it will be a great day and, hopefully, a
productive one as well!
Kathy
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
kluss...@masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
On 7/25/2014 7:27 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
Hi all,
Last fall, I put out an e-mail message suggesting community bug
squashing days- http://markmail.org/message/22six3nkgbhr3f3t. It
received some support at the time, but I didn't do any
follow-through to make it happen.
Last week, I took some time to update a local spreadsheet I'm
maintaining on Launchpad bugs that are important to libraries in the
three MassLNC networks. I was pleased to remove some bugs that have
since been fixed, but then I added a whole lot more. We started with
about 50 bugs on the list, and the number is now at 83. These
numbers reminded me of how it important it is that we try to
allocate some time on a community level to fix bugs.
I have a more formal proposal I would like to put forward and, if
it's agreeable to others, I commit to doing my part to try to make
these days happen.
Proposal: Evergreen Bug Squashing Days
Goal: The goal of bug squashing days is for contributors and
volunteers to commit the entire day to the following activities:
* Fixing bugs
* Testing bugs that have pullrequests
* General bug wrangling activities (confirming bugs, marking
duplicates, etc.)
* Pushing bug fixes into Evergreen (for core committers)
When:
I'm proposing that we try to schedule bug squashing days on a
quarterly basis. I was thinking August/November/February/May would
be a good schedule where the bug squashing days aren't running up
against an Evergreen release.
What is Needed:
* Somebody to work on scheduling the day and set up a wiki page (I
volunteer, but am happy to hand off the task or work with somebody
else if needed.)
* Volunteers willing to devote a day of their time to the above
activities. These volunteers do not need to just be developers or
sys admins. Anyone can confirm bugs, look for duplicates, or perhaps
team up with a sys admin to test patches.
Extras:
The idea for these bug squashing days came from similar days
organized by the Koha community.
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:Global_bug_squashing_days.
They do a couple of things that I would love to see for Evergreen
bug squashing days.
* The Koha community uses this great scoreboard on bug squashing
days - http://scoreboard.koha-community.org/. The code for the
scoreboard is available at
https://gitorious.org/scoreboard/scoreboard. It would be great if we
had a volunteer who was willing to create a similar scoreboard for
Evergreen bug squashing days.
* The Koha community also has Sandboxes available that makes it
easier for librarians to test patches. It may be a little difficult
to pull together something for Evergreen that's as automated as
these Sandboxes, but I think it's worthwhile to set a goal to
eventually have some Sandbox servers available to the Evergreen
community where patches can be tested (not just on Bug Squ
