On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:22:35AM +0000, Helen Faulkner wrote: > Frank Lichtenheld (who happens to be my AM) has just announced a bug > squashing party for next weekend, to try to reduce the number of RC bugs in > Sarge. I've quoted his email to debian-devel below (sorry to those who > have now seen this twice). > I think I will at least hang around on #debian-bugs and watch what happens. > Is anyone else interested in this? I'd like to learn more about this > bug-squashing business, and I guess, going on what Frank said below, that > there will be helpful things to do for people who are inexperienced. > If other people are going to be there, maybe you could let me know (moral > support is good...). In relation to this, I've been asked to mention an idea that I've been kicking around for a few weeks, which has gotten a generally positive reaction on IRC. Since debian-women is all about helping women get involved in the Debian project, and squashing RC bugs is an important area where the project definitely needs more people to get involved (and one that's close to my heart as a release manager), I'd like to propose an "RC bugsquashing tutorial" to coincide with the BSP this weekend. The tutorial would amount to me trying to give people pointers on how to pick RC bugs to work on, strategies for dealing with common classes of RC bugs, and thoughts on when to give up on an RC bug (and what to send to the BTS when you do, to help the next person who tries tackling it). Then once I run out of pithy advice to dispense, I figured I'd dole out some current RC bugs for people to try their hand at, and provide one-on-one assistance with any questions that come up. If the experiment isn't a total failure, then the next step would be to write it up on a website somewhere. It is not intended that this tutorial be closed to men, but as this is something we've never tried before, I'm not going to announce it to a wider audience than this mailing list. Also, given the requirement for one-on-one attention from the only experienced DD that's volunteered for the task so far (me), the optimal group size for this is probably 6-10. If there are others willing to help out as part of the BSP we may be able to stretch that if necessary, but probably not by much. I'll try to pick a time for this that works for everyone interested in attending, so if you'd like to participate please email me ASAP with times this weekend when you would be available. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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