[Bugsquad] Re: KWin BugDay

[Javier Llorente]

On Domingo, 3 de Octubre de 2010 10:18:15 Michael Leupold escribió:
> Javier Llorente wrote:
> > On Miércoles, 22 de Septiembre de 2010 18:49:46 Michael Leupold escribió:
> >> Javier Llorente wrote:
> >> > I am not an expert but I can help writing the announcement (well it's
> >> > 99% done), making a bug squash report and of course squashing some
> >> > bugs ;-)
> >> 
> >> Almost forgot about answering to this part:
> >> Great! If you need anyone to read through the announcement, just contact
> >> me with details. Also if you'd like to double check, Martin (mgraesslin)
> >> should be around on IRC most of the time so he can make sure the facts
> >> are straight. Hitting the dot this weekend or the week after would be
> >> awesome, so we'd still have time to have little reminder follow-up
> >> blogposts.
> >> 
> >> Given the buzz around KWin regarding driver-/stack-bugs this might make
> >> a good impression and indeed give BugSquad the publicity needed as
> >> well. Now let's all pray the Live images turn out good :-)
> > 
> > Here's the first draft :-)
> > 
> > KWin Bug Day (date)
> > Due to the latest influx of bugs it's getting harder and harder for
> > Martin Grässlin to keep up. Let's help him out by squashing some bugs!
> > 
> > You don't need to have any special skills. The most important thing is
> > that you’re interested in helping us to clean the bug list so developers
> > can focus on fixing the bugs!
> > 
> > The BugDay consist of 3 goals:
> > - Check for old KWin bugs reproducability (KDE3 and early KDE4)
> > - Check recent and UNCONFIRMED bugs, reproduce, check for duplicates
> > and figure out step-by-step instructions (as well as special
> > circumstances like graphic card drivers)
> > - Flag bugs so they can easily be sorted into components. This is
> > especially necessary for new features like tiling or window tabbing
> > which don't have components yet.
> > 
> > <some urls with more info on bug squashing; kde wiki, bugzilla, ...>
> > 
> > So let's make KWin a bit better!
> > Join us in the  #kde-bugs IRC channel on Freenode.
> 
> Great, I like it. Two things I'd change:
> - make the 3 goals a bit shorter (eg. remove the "especially necessary..."
> part and the "(as well as...)" part, so we don't get too technical.
> - Readd time and date for the last sentence: "Join us in the #kde-bugs IRC
> channel on FreeNode, Sunday 10th 2010 starting 11:00 AM UTC"
> 
> (feel free to ignore or improve what I put :)).
> 
> Preliminary BugDay page on techbase:
> http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Bugsquad/BugDays/KWinDay1
> 
> A primer to why triaging bugs is good:
> http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Bugsquad/Guide
> 
> I'd add both links to the announcement. Especially the triage introduction
> one is good as it's not long enough to seriously scare people off :) After
> finishing, could you please push the article on the dot and push people on
> #kde-promo so it gets up there quickly? (afaik introducing html paragraphs
> accelerates the process as well :)).
> 
> Unfortunately I'll be really really low on time next week. I'll try to
> prepare everything as good as possible, help would be appreciated though.
> 
> Thanks and kind regards,
> Michael
>

Done.
Sent to dot news :-)

-- 
Javier Llorente
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