[Bugsquad] KWin BugDay

[Michael Leupold]

Hi Javier,

Javier Llorente wrote:
> On Sábado, 18 de Septiembre de 2010 14:01:12 Michael Leupold escribió:
>> at our sprint in Stuttgart, Martin Grässlin asked me if we would be
>> interested in doing a KWin BugDay. His main reason is that with the
>> latest influx of bugs it's getting harder and harder for him to keep
>> up.
>> 
>> I'd really like to do this BugDay, but as I stated in my last mail,
>> I'm really in need of help, especially regarding good marketing and
>> providing help to new triagers. The date I have in mind is currently
>> Sunday, 3rd of October, the Sunday after would be fine as well.
>> 
>> 
>> Now on to some details:
>> 
>> The BugDay would 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.
>> 
>> I've also been thinking about providing a LiveDVD so people
>> (non-developers) don't have to learn how to build trunk first. It's
>> currently up on SUSEStudio containing much of KDE and debug packages.
>> The main problem will probably be allowing the user to install
>> additional drivers (eg. NVIDIA) while the system is running, I have no
>> clue if this can be handled yet. If anyone is interested in getting
>> this running, please contact me on IRC so we can figure out how to
>> share the SUSEStudio appliance.
> 
> 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 ;-)
> Regarding the Live DVD, I suggest you making three versions: free (Intel
> and others), ATI and NVIDIA. I could build them and host them. BTW, an
> easy way to share a SUSE Studio appliance is by publishing it in the "SUSE
> Gallery."

Making separate LiveCDs is a good idea. However my main problem was to 
figure out if that would clash with any of the licences involved (non-free 
driver). Do you know?

Regards,
Michael