[Bugsquad] KWin BugDay

[Javier Llorente]

On Miércoles, 22 de Septiembre de 2010 15:33:40 Michael Leupold escribió:
> 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?
> 

That's the main problem, distributing non-free stuff :-(
Nevertheless, I think there are workarounds like telling people to ask you for 
the download link instead of publishing it ;-)

Greetings,
--
Javier Llorente
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