On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, _why wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 08:59:25AM -0700, Ernest Prabhakar wrote:
> > I'm not much of a bug fixer, but I'd be happy to help with the
> > organizational logistics. I'm good at bugging people. :-)
> >
> > What time of day works best for you? I'd suggest a Friday
> > morning/afternoon; probably starting *after* the US July 4th weekend...
Timezones?
>
> Brilliant! I am so glad to have some help. I am in dire need of
> assistants. Especially assistants with PhDs.
And those repairing shoes for whom the timezone is night shall be
denoted "elves". [SCNR]
>
> As regarding a shoe repair day, I could use help with two aspects.
> The .1st. is simply to get word out that it's going to happen. Many
^^^^^
I tried to parse that as a FORTRAN comparison operator at first!
People are blogging about shoes, maybe there are bloggers you
could nudge? I've not been saving the ones I've seen, sorry.
> Shoes users aren't on this list and only casually use builds here
> and there. Many still use Curious. So, announcements should
Would it be a good idea to borrow from Firefox and elsewhere and
have a "check for updates" option built in? Doesn't help the
versions out there now, of course. I'm glad that you don't have to
subscribe to anything to get the download, so I'd avoid *that* sort
of thing. It's one thing to grab a program people generally trust,
you virus scanned, etc, another to sign up for (email alerts,
another password to forget, ...).
> emphasize how to get a recent build and roughly what to expect with
> Shoes right now.
>
> The .2nd. is to help discover any of the obvious problems people are
> finding so that the bug day isn't held up by fundamental things.
Is there a place people can look for the known ones, so they don't
doubly, triply, k'ly report them? Any way to have a Big Visible Chart
online so people can see what's happening? I've not got into Twitter,
but that might be useful for those that are.
> So, if someone replies to an announcement with a complaint about
> PowerPC support -- yes, _why is going to have PowerPC support all
> ready for the bug day, you'll hear from us soon.
>
Hugh
